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There is growing opposition in Parliament to the Electricity Supply Bill, which was dropped this session. It is to be reintroduced in the new session, and, in the words of the Prime Minister, "passed into law as expeditiously as possible."

GERMANY'S HIDDEN WAR MACHINES

CHEMICAL ARMAMENTS AND AIRCRAFT

UNDERGROUND HANGARS

(By J. B. Firth).

London. clared an output of 84 engines A discussion on it at a meetingITH the trebling of the that month, which in April rose of the Conservative Private Mem- Divisions of the Reichs- to 116. There are more 'planes bers' Committee revealed that if the wehr from seven to twenty-one wheeling every day in the Ger- Government persist in forcing it the number of officers has trebled man sky than in any other in the through they will be acting "against also from 4,000 to 12,000. But, world.

the will of the majority of mem-in addition, the Reichswehr Nor was the Minister's sugges~. authorities have demanded ation that Germany did not pos-

||bers."

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It is suggested that a represents- further 50 per cent. increase on dess a single fighting" plane or tive of the Electricity Board should considerations of military effi-bomber less preposterous. Even be invited to explain the Bill's in-ciency.

in 1982 she was selling 'planes of tricacies to members.

The real figure, therefore, now the G88 type to the Japanese Nearly 60 petitions have been pre the modest figure of 4,000 allow-proof that this type of machine stands at 18,000, as opposed to General Staff-itself conclusive

was, of military value.

sented to Parliament to send it to a

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Select Committee. This would holded by the Treaty, it up for some time.

Not less important than the It is to be borne in mind that question of effectives in these Germany's official conception of There will be a big fight in the days. of mechanical fire-power is Air strength is expressed in Commons to carry this plan. that of armament. Here it is terms of bombers. In an

not possible to speak with the planatory memorandum attached same confidence. Weapons are to the Air Estimates for 1934, the Head of the Operations De- partment vigorously stressed this

The popular idea of the duel- very

ARTY HAMPSTEAD

The legend that Chelsea is the easier to conceal than men. centre of artists is rapidly dying.

No Heavy Guns It is much more the centre of Royal

Heavy guns and large tanks view. Academicians and rich people who are forbidden by the Treaty of

to practising it,

prefer contemplating Bohemiantem Versailles. If Germany has any ling aeroplane holds a

heavy guns they have not been secondary place in the official Even Bloomsbury, long regarded observed. They will probably mind, which thinks in squadrons of bombers with great carrying as the intellectual quarter, is fading come later in her rearmament out. With the death of Roger Fry, time-table.

capacity, wide radius of action

this home of pre-war modernists fa

Without them, and without and racing speed. Major Wim- heginning to disintegrate.

adequate strength in field artil-mer defined the "historical mis- would make it more possible than

Hampstead is now the centre of lery, Germany is not likely to sion" imposed upon the German any of those with which we are culture. Here live the poets unres abandon her present policy of Air forces as that of assuring the "moral or material paralysis of more familiar. The United trained by grammar, and to when combining peace with prepara-

England" in the event of a Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 22, 1934. States could come fairly near to a complex is what a daffodil was to tion for war.

the autarkist ideal by maintain-Wordsworth: here live abstract Dummy

Franco-German campaign! tanks long since ing the present tariff and aban-painters and sculptresses.

I take that categorical and appeared at the German man- doning foreign loans and foreign Chiswick, under the wings of A. oeuvres.

Engines suitable for arresting statement from DA trade. With higher technical P. Herbert, is watching Hampstead real tanks, both large and small Helmut Klotz's book, "Germany's efficiency China could make a But Hampstead does not make are being produced in large Secret Armaments," from which third autarky, so long as her ledge the existence of Chiswick. people were content with the pre- sent low standard of comfort.

Autarky

Whatever else the year 1934

us

It is difficult to see what other. State could maintain even its present population on an autar- kist system.

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motor

German

I quoted in my previous article. According to him, in March of Mechanisation is in full swing, this year Gen. Goring had at Standardisation is rigorously command ready for all military enforced in the manufacture of purposes:

18 Junker planes, "Ju 52," component parts of

three engines, carrying 3 to mechanised vehicles of every sort!

tons:

"Horace is going to teach me to play the cards so that I'll know all about it after we are married."

"That's right: What game is he go- and kind. ing to teach you."

I think he called it patience."

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Yet there are people in Eng- oddest. It is an old saying that

land not only advocating autarky

The cadres of the various there is nothing new under

as a practical plan for the world

"illegal" arms were formed long the sun; and it is certainly a sug-in general, but even for England,

ago. The actual units are now gestive thought that the most up who grows enough food for only

her

Employer: "While I'm away you will coming into view. As for chemi- Obtainable from all dispensaries to date movements seem to reach one

us labelled with names that have population.

present take your orders from the mistress cal warfare, a Hamburg firm was It would not be Giles."

advertising war chemicals in their source in the ideals and necessary to take the movement Gardener: "Yea, air-me as if you South American papers last year. policies of the Greeks of the fifth seriously if it were not that it is was at home." century of the pre-Christian Era the obvious inspiration of pro-

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of their State to foreigners, and bonuses to industries that could Secretary: "I'm sorry, sir, but he their ability to reconcile it with never hold their own against at dinner." devotion to their own State; their competition. The past year has Caller: "But, my man, my errand is wide-flung commerce reconciled added to the conditions that make Secretary: "It can't be helped, sir.

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with domestic industry: and the men anxious to confine their His Honour is at steak." consequent cultivation of luxury trade to customers who are under which they said was achieved the same law as themselves. without any effeminacy.

They Ups and downs of exchange re house in such a lonesome region?"

"What was it induced you to buy contrasted these conditions with duce contracts to something like one of the best cut ergomen those which found favour with a gamble; the list of public de-the business." their great antagonists the faults steadily grows; constant Spartans, who aimed at dis-babble of war. scares makes couraging foreign relationships people think that in creating

and complications or entangle prosperity in foreign countries CHINESE MEDICINES ments; at cultivating a simple they may be only nourishing a scheme of life which would not future enemy.

Their Efficacy

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36 Dornier 'planes, "Do Y," three engines, carrying 3 to 4.

tons?

10 "M. 34" 'planes, two engines, carrying 2 to 21⁄2 tons.

Convertible "Plane

In the same month the Air and this is precisely the branch Ministry directed that all aero- of scientific warfare in which one planes with two or more engines would expect the Germans to should be so constructed as to be excel. If new specialities have convertible into bombers within is been invented they have yet to a few hours. It must not be be disclosed. There is talk of a assumed, of course, from this new poison gas from cyanides. order that previously such aero- The credibility of various lurid planes were not so convertible. reports which are current de- On the contrary, a large pro- pends, I think, on the view taken portion were. Consequently of the Nazi attitude to "fright- those who try to estimate the Air a fulness" as an instrument of war. strength of Germany in bombers, It was openly adopted by the must take into account the large Germans in the Great War, and numbers of 'planes now classed I have seen no renunciation of its under the head of Civil Aviation, lawfulness or expediency by the which can be turned into, war present regime.

machines at a few hours' notice. Last March fifty three-engined Junkers and more than sixty two-engined 'plates of other

in

Air Strength Shock

I pass, next, to the subject which is of paramount interest

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to the people of Great Britain types were available. the question of German Air

There is a rooted; strength.

is reserving her

require exports or imports; at a There are two barometers of Noted Professor Lauds system narrowly approaching public confidence; the prestige of internal barter, which they called the League of Nations, which! self-sufficiency. (autarkeia). It represents an attempt to secure was an anticipating of Sinn Fein, co-operation-through-the recog-interest 18

A visitor to China of unusual belief here, as elsewhere, that "ourselves alone." Sparta did at nition of public law, and the talk Roerich, artist, philosopher, explor- Germany

professor Nicholas this is the department in which ROUND THE WORLD any rate get a hardy breed of of autarky, which represents dis-

BY CYCLE soldiers out of their plan; the illusion and the abandonment of arrived in Peking from the United when her war strength stands er and archaeologist, who has greatest shock for the world other people who were quoted as any hope of public law. Like the

Woman's Four Year autarkists, the Boeotians, merely old fashioned barometers that States via Japan and Manchuria. fully revealed. resisted outside influences with-had two figures, a man

Although an explorer of note in

Under the Treaty of Versailles and a

Trip out developing any worthy woman, of which the man came

Central Asia, this is Professor she is not allowed a single fight- scheme of their own, and became forward as the woman went back Roerich's first visit to China ing aeroplane. In well informed

Miss Nita Rosalyn, who during Ja byword for rusticity.

the indicate the mental afmou-Proper.

quarters the belief-obviously The modern. Humanists who phere. This year the movement An aspect of Chinese civilisa-there can be no certain know the past four years has cycled base education on mathematics has been all one way; our best toon which he believes can con- day from 500 to 600.

ledge is that she possesses to-the first stage of a four years' cycle 40,000 miles, has left London on and chemistry and physics are hope is that Christmas may mark tribute much toward the well-

tour through France, Spain, Fortu- Gen. Goring, who took over quite right in recognising the the beginning of a reverse move being of the rest of the world la supreme control of the German gal, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, importance of those subjects in ment..

that of China's medical science. Air Ministry when Hitler became and the United States. There 18 an ever-increasing interest Chancellor, is an Air expert ofed with a bicycle by Lt-Colonel Before, she left, she was present- in the old Chinese pharmacopoein ruthless determination. He is John Colville, Secretary for Over- in Europe and America and he be bent on making the German lieves that the curative effect of people air-minded and Germany Trade, on behalf of the British Chinese medicines, composed chiefly supreme in the Air.

Cycle and Motor-cycle Manufac-

Three Motorships For Australian Trade

an age that is being dragged behind the wheels of mechanical CLYDE'S LEAD IN invention; but it is becoming

SHIPBUILDING fairly clear that those who for- get that the proper study of mankind is man are bent on try

of various herbs, is better than that Last February, in an out-turers and Traders' Union. ing a large number of experi-i

of many medicines of the West. spaken-but by no means candid Miss Rosslyn is taking with her, ments that have been tried before

The organic nature of such concoc conversation with a British nearly 400 letters from elvic au- without benefiting from the experience of thore who tried Clyde has more mercantile tonnage organic, metallic elementa used in and that nothing less than 80 or

It is now estimated that the the human system than do the in-possessed 800 civilian aeroplanes, sake towns in the Empire overseas. tions harmonises much better with journalist, he said that Germany thorities in Britain to their name them. Progressive as they may on hand than any other district in Western medicines. be in the laboratory they are re Britain. In total it amounts to actionaries in the management of

40 per cent. of the total Air JAPANESE PAWNSHOPS IN affairs; and the policies they

Professor Roerich's present trip strength of the countries border- some 38 vessels.aggregating 160,000

NORTH CHINA to China has been undertaken ating on Germany would be suffi- tons. advocate cancel the inventions they devise.

the instance of Président Franklin cient; to make her Air defence The Soviets quite

Including the Queen Mary, the

Japanese pawnshops that have candidly state that they only

amount of mercantile tonnage note D. Roosevelt and under the auspices secure. France alone, it may be sprung up like mushrooms in Tainan encourage foreign trade as a

bufiding or fitting out in the vari- of the Department of Agriculture, observed, has a total of 3,000 during the last two years are how meeting with stiff competition from pensing with it altogether. well over the 100,000-ton mark, make a thorough study of the 115 Engines In April Russia and Siberia together are

Of the six vessels launched dar- grasses of the Mongolian Plateau The statement that Germany Government, It is reported. It is an area so large and diverse that lng October, three of the largest and the Gobi Desert, particularly had ony 300 civilian aeroplanes estimated that the total Japanese the ideal is not a mere phantasm; were moterships for the Australian with regard to their drought-resist was simply grotesque, The lavestments in pawnshops in Tainan and the system of government trade

Ing qualities.

Bavarian Motor Works alone de-lis. $1,000,000.;.

preliminary step towards disous Clydeside basins is computed at His object on this occasion is to machines. shops operated by the Shantung