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Waiting For Geneva

Exchange Bldg-

lerable; and that even with all

its other duties the Britisn Army might have to add a new “front” to its long list. Fifty years ago Lord Napier of Magdala, when he took his expedition to Addis Ababa to

release a number of Europeans shut up as prisoners, had a good

He would warriors was

1935.

Here There

and A Everywhere

SCOTLAND AND GLENCOE

The purchase of the site of the Massacre of Glencoe by the Scot- tish National Trust will mean. one fears, the perpetuation of a hate which has already lasted tooj long

A CAMPBELL HATER

"PROPERTY" RIGHTS IN RUSSIA

RELIEF FOR PEASANTS CONTEMPLATED

NEW AGRICULTURAL POLICY TO BE INTRODUCED

(By A. T. Cholerton)

On

still Agam for the first time since

tons

than

The ares

The hate is not so much of the English as of the Campbells who were responsible for the massa the master key to the 1929, the spring sowings were cre. Sentiment has already in-situation in the country, is this this year got into the ground vested the tragedy with a mass year above the average by June 1, Russia's traditional of legend. The very name. The middle plus," as the experts date for finishing them. This is some safeguard against. Glen of Weeping by which the say valley is now known to many")

Drought again damaged the drought the curse of the English people, has nothing to do

the Southern grain belts and a with its Gaelic name. Glen Coe spring sown wheat

southern fringe of the great further proof of the return to means the narrow glen. The name was there long before the Massa-Ukrainian grain lands from normal conditions. As better just east of Odessa to the Sea arrangements have been made of Azov But in the vital cen-for harvesting, the gap between the so-called "statistical""CTOP- tral belt and southwards through Kuban to the Caucasian figure and the total quantity of At the entrance to the Glen a Mountains the cornfields are grain actually garnered will also

be somewhat less figrant.. Celtic cross of red granite, érect-good-

In 1994 when the "statisti- ed in 1884 by a Macdonald, com- Famine between this harvest memorates the dark deed. . and next may now be ruled out cal crop was put at 90.000.000 į tons of all-grains, the real crop- The National Trust may erect Hunger there may be in places was probably not more other monuments for with the but no mortality, no actual 70.000.000 tons. This year, the revival of the Nationalist move starvation. In the sense of a real crop is expected to be about ment in Scotland there has been bread shortage, there nearly 180.000.000 a great digging out of forgotten always is hunger in one or other oficially returned as sown with heroes:

of Russia's grain areas before wheat is now just over 10 per One of the most curious is the barvest comes round.

cent more than in 1913. The- John Boy Stewart, a hero of Cal But this year bread shortage total sown area for all cereals loden whos although exiled. has, in the drought-stricken has likewise increased by about mained for years in the forests Odessa district for instance 10 per cent. But, as there has of Abernethy.

Stewart was a Campbell hater been relieved to some extent by been a great increase in techni and s poet who spent his time small daily doles of flour, as anal culture, the total cultivated advance on the harvest, to col-larea of all kinds has increased lectivised peasants only. The by as much as 25 per cent. composing psalms. One runs as

From famine to bare subsis- private farmer has been "vir-

ally eradicated from the great tence is already an enormous jump, and that is about as far belts.

Bread, too, is now on free sale as the Russian peasant has got.. to peasants in the towns, albeit in the last two years. Most of at what are to them. "hold-up" the peasants are still miserabir prices one paper rouble per poor

The new tractors are not the kilogram for the blackest rye bread. They are also making property of the collective farms. better use of their cow, when They belong to they have one, to bridge over Machine

| (“MT.S."}," directly controlled lean months.

The great famine of 1932-33. from Moscow. When supply- with its millions of victims, ing the Collectives with caused by the clash of official mechanical services, including "Johnnie" inquired his aunt, "did ruthlessness against the sulky threshing. this "M.TS." makes you enjoy the book I sent you for stone-wailing of a peasantry a charge in kind of anything up

follows:

would →

a

The Lord's my targe. I will

stout

With dirk and trusty blade. Though Campbells come

droves about

I will not be afraid.

Your Daily Smile!

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Christmas E

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be

in

the district Tractor Station

is:

Old Horace was a man who liked to sit in the evening and look around; he reported that sip his flagon of Falernian with permanent occupation the least possible disturbance; not be worth while, and the best Calling a spade a spade

Gave courage to many a chump; but he had to submit to being thing to do with the Amhari worried sometimes

to leave them But nowadays some partners think

We should. label it "no tramp.”. Of refuse however to worry about alone in their mountains. more than one thing at a time; course in those days there was and he laid down the maxima no internal combustion engine that he could not take any in-with insatiable thirst for off

Oil Diplomacy is terest in distant wars on the But Frontiers when the house of his dangerous thing; and in any haven't looked at it."

"I don't know yet." said Johnnie, dragooned into collectivisation, to 20 per cent. of the total crop was clearly a "once only" pheno- and the peasants, therefore, neighbour Ucalegon was ablaze case with so many wells shut

menon. A five years struggle tend to regard it as the "new "Why not?"

landlord.” Watching the crowds standing down it cannot be said that

'Cause mother said Fd have to sent down the number of pea-

This resemblance sant households in Russia from all day in Des Voeux Road there is any lack of supply wash my hands first." before the doors of the Whoever becomes responsible

25.000.000 to barely 20,000-strengthened by the fact that threatened Banks, with an ex-for advising and protecting the In a hotel that has just been built 000, through hunger and the the directors of these stations causes decide on Moscow's instruc epidemics hunger pression of mingled anxiety and Negus will have to take respon in a North of England town there is

be crops shall patience makes one wonder sibility for outrages committed "Silence Room Guests who don't

quite know how they are going to pay though fight into the towns and tions. what whether there is any public in by his very unruly subjects their bill find it is just the place for deportation. This taught the grown and, although political Government a lesson as well as control was abolished last year, terest left for a place so far and an enlightened administra-

a little. quiez meditation.

they still exercise a dominant: the peasants. away as Geneva. Yet the two tion will not have at its dis- points of interest are connect-posal some of the sterner AEROPLANE RACE

Since early in 1983 a policy political influence over the vil- of cautions but persistent re-lages. forms in favour of the collec- The other main charge on the Livised peasants has been Collective Farm is the Fixed: applied, with the aim of making Grain Tax. The State pays the them self-sufficing in lean years, nominal sum of about 60-70-

in and at other times less reinc paper roubles per ton, or tant to produce the margin of other words, 1-20th of the pre- food necessary for city con-war gold price for the grain. thus levied. The tax is calculat- sumption

AT CLEVELAND

BOOK Jacques Bonhomme has been be ruminating on the questions and 16.3 seconds, it was announc

CHINA YEAR BOOK

1935 EDITION

The 25 Chapters of the 17th issue of the CHINA YEAR BOOK. edited by EL G. W. Woodhead, C.B.E, have as usual been revised or rewritten with the assistance of many experts, Chinese and foreign, and every effort has been made to bring information and statistics up to date.

The Chapter on the Knomintang covers the political history of China in 1934. The Chapter on the Chinese Government contains the Text of the Provisional Constitution, the Organic. Law, and the Draft of the Permanent Constitution

The Chapter on International Issues gives the text of the Agreement and Exchange of Notes of the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway, besides the latest documents relating to Síma- Japanese issues..

China's Communications Railways, Roads, Post Office, Telegraphs, Wireless, Telephones and Aviation are very fully dealt with.

Father D'Elia, in the Chapter on Religions, contributes an -interesting Chronological Review of Catholic Missions in China.“

Mr. E. Kanz is again responsible for the Chapter on Cur- rency and Banking, and the Loan Tables

A new feature is a Chapter on China's Modern Industries.

Price: $18 (Postage in China 30 cents extra)

ed far more closely than lies on methods which enabled the late the surface: for threats of war Emperor Menelek to subdue the and upsets of exchange rates tribes into the semblance of are all symptoms of persistent unity. It is quite true that the war that has been going on now Italians have been treated with! Ben Howard Likely for years between nations who disrespect, and it is quite

Winner can only lose by each other's natural that sore feelings have impoverishment.

been roused. That is the real!

Cleveland, Aug. 30. Whatever

the result ar explanation of the refusal to

Marred by the death of Cecil

These reforms, which beganed on an acreage basis and is at Geneva this question of tolerat-consider up to the present

by fixing a grain tax în kind on present about 20 per cent of ing or avoiding the senseless juncture, any proposals for Allez, former trans-Pacific flies, lack of friendship between peaceful settlement. It is also the annual $10,000. trans-co-an acreage basis instead of the the crop.

When deliveries under this nations that leads to antagon quite true that Il Duce probably tinental Bendix trophy aeroplane old arbitrary requisitions, cul- ism has been brought into the calculates that any decision not race was apparently won to-day minated with the statutory head have been completed the forefront of the thoughts of the arrived at as the result of a by Benjamin Howard, of Chicago right for each household (as I collective farm will if the Howard raced here from Los reported last February) to keep harvest is good. usually voter ordinary citizen in a way that fight may leave the people still has never happened before; for intransigent. But he must also Angeles in eight hours, 33 minutes at least one cow in addition to ender the influence of the young cattle, a few sheep and MTS director, to sell still

(Continued on Page 12) inclined to think the League, too whetser the memories of defeated by officials of the National Airlongs and a potato and vegetable more grain to the State at far ahead of present conditions will not leave a more virulent Races in progress here, but they

Now it has moved as far as to be taken seriously. The hatred and longing for revenge. said this was subject to com

the final recognition of the pro- truth is that it is only ahead With a high-spirited race defeat tion because he thinks it is The is never final and the precan- Last year's Bendix trophy race,perty rights in land of each col papers laid before the Council tions against reprisals are pro-a feature of the air races here, lective farm within its present at Geneva, particularly the bibitively costly. The speeches was won by Doug Davis with ar borders. This measure aims at account of the very generous addressed to the army are average speed of 216.237 miles as giving the peasants a feeling of 3ssistance offered by Great fuspired by a "danin the canse-hour, while A Worthen was security of tenure as

203.213 m.phloperating group. The rights of Britain and France to Italy atquences" attitude that scorns to second with

individual households to remain the recent tripartite Conference argue the case on any ground of Associated Press-

lin their collective farms are in called in terms of the Treaty of humanitarianism or interest;

ino wise guaranteed, but their 1906 make it quite clear that they are a frank expression of

status now seems fairly secure (for any purpose other than the creed of Thor and Woran "military glory war will be a that is being preached in the

The forthcoming marriage is if they do as they are told sheer waste of life and wealth North of Europe by Fieldnnounced of Mr. Charles Under these new conditio

collectivised. agriculture, Take away the "glory motive" Marshal Ludendorf It is di- Frederick Pragnell, by showing that even success ficult to estimate how much of of No. 31. Taipo Road, Sham, though by Western standar will not be admired, but execrat-this glorification of war for shuipo, and Miss Daisy Lam, of alarmingly wasteful Ted, and the Black Shirts them war's sake is to be taken No. 143. Tung Choi Street, eficient must mean

selves will begin to wonder whe- seriously, but it is cer ther the agony and sweat is not frank and direct defiance of all too heavy a price to pay for the the ideals of the League, suouting and the cheers is coming into its own From the time when the Ual non-political man eve Val incident began to be dis-studies recent history cursed in florid per

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have given it as the case for

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