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EXPLANATION OF YESTERDAY'S CARTOON

The Bowl Of Wisdom

Confacius, founder of the state religion of China, died in 475-5.C.

Here

There and

Everywhere.

Within a year after his death, BOUGHTON'S GARDENS

Notice To Contributora. All communications intended for Emperor Yuen Wang ordered the publication should be addressed to body of the great philosopher

Boughton Hall, where the Duke

BRITISH FLAG IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

CONFIDENCE IN COUNTRY

REVIVED

the uditor, and be accompanied by humed, and the skull of the great of Gloucester and his fiancee are GREAT DISPLAY OF NAVAL FORCE

the Writer's Name and Address man

removed from his tomb spending the first part of their

not necessarily for insertion, but While the corpse was re-interred, honeymoon, is remarkable for its

ar a guarantee of good faith.

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Euthanasia

the skull was made into a drink-gardens

ing bowl, set in massive gold. Out At one time there were a hun- of this curious vessel, the Emperor dred acres of garden, and 70 miles proposed to drink wisdom and or walks and drives in the park. piety required in the re-establish The number of gardeners employ ment of justice and right in his ed was in the neighbourhood of Empire.

100.

WELCOMED

(By Gerald Stanley)

[The writer sailed, through the Mediterraneax and Red Sea at time when tension was growing between Italy and Great Britain, a result of the League negotiations regarding Abyssinia and the press attacks on England by Italy.

Naturally, ander modem con. He notes in this article the deep pessimism then prevailing a

The Bowl of Wisdom was pre-

it has not been possible served in the Summer Palace at ditions, Pessin until 1942. In that year of to continue to keep up the the Opium War, the palace was dens on such a scale. looted of this treasure by one of

Britisk bases in the Mediterranean. In a second article to-morTOW he describes the tremendous change of feeling brought about by the strengthening of the British naval forces in that area]

The founder of the family, from Abyssinia we were for some there to quell an anticipated rebel-

*

Alice Montagu-

Nour way to the Red Sea and, thinses. Some said troops were

The lion. Others that these were pre-

Nothing indicates more clear-Fane's famous horsemen, and the which Lady

the ageless identity of bowl turned up at an Exhibition Douglas-Scott- is descended, was days without definite news. human fate and human inter-in London in 1862. It was then Sir Edward Montagu, one of the official wireless communique is in-cautionary measures to frustrate ess than the fact that there owned by a Mr. Tait, but has guardians of the young King Ed-adequate when it is the only source any attempt to land a noble exile. are certain subjects that have since passed into the possession of ward VI been discussed from the earthe Hearne family. liest days from which literature survives, and which may lie dormant for a period, but are certain to crop up again for new discussion just as if they were fresh discoveries. SIA subject is what is loosely call-

the

REFUSED TO GO TO COURT Summons Dismissed

1.200 POOR GUESTS

of information. All we knew was The most threatening and the that the League of Nations was most widely held interpretation taking its time over the Italo- was that Gibraltar had been-pro- Įmised by one Power to another as „Abyssinian question.

We were a little disposed, as a reward for certain co-operation He kept up great state, and many people were, to think that in case of eventualities. the words of a contemporary that time was a long time, that no

What Now? chroniclers

concerted action would be taken to

The people of the Bock pointed When Sir Edward Montaguensure the sanctity of covenants, jout that there was no British war-

rode into the tune of Northamp that a bent of tal can ship in the harbour; therefore the ton from Boughton he bore such paiga" might easily spread and British were intending to cede that say cs turned everything at his involve Europe in a new war toguardian of the Straits without a

suleuthanasia" which is now used to mean a painless death

Due to the fact that the lady artificially secured with consent of the person who dies, who was bitten by a dog belong-Beck and the Multitude or Vulgars because

otherwise he would ing to Mrs. Bromley, No. 8, ill-flock'd about him as if he had been end war. merely be prolonging a painful wood Road, had refused to come their topical Deity.”

A coachman who had driven a existence without hope of reto Court, the summons against covery. The word itself mere the defendant for allowing her physician down from London ly means "good dying" and the dog abroad without a muzzle was Boughton told the people there first use of it was for those dismissed, by Mr. Wynne-Jones that in London he had seen

called at the Kow-many as "twelve hundred cases in which an old person when it was

people served in a day at my passes away peacefully and sud-loon Magistracy this morning- denly, usually in sleep, from old It was stated that the dog was

Montagu's gate."

to

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poor

Lord

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age, for no other reason than that the body, which for practi-wandering in Hilwood Road and cal purposes in this connectionbit a lady who, when asked to

to be Father (to Betty, who has laughed means the heart, has worn it- come to Court yesterday, said she self out. To the ancient was but was found

You sure yourself that you always Greeks, to whose language the out when the Police called at her at her brother): "Well, Bemys are know the meaning of some of the word belongs, it would have residence again this morning.

The owner of the dog, Mrs-3 words you use?" seemed inappropriate to use the

Betty (primby): "I may not know word if there was any specific Bromley, was advised to see that

her dog was muzzled in such a their meaning, but I do know where disease at all

Of all the possessions that a way in future that he would to use them man may claim there will be no be unable to bite anybody. doubt in anyone's mind that the most precious is

his life.

struggle. It had, they said, ceased There was a possibility of more to have any strategic or tactical extended news at Gibraltar, which value anyway. Before the advent we reached on August 27. It is a of the aeroplane it had had a real

that rock showed herself, her now—what was it? longish time are now, but when significance: it did command. Bud lower slopes brilliant in the stu

Just a spur of land that could be the mist clinging on the crest, starved into submission, and if not was good to see that Gibraltar was destroyed, at least badly knocked still intact, guarding the Straits about by a suficiency of bombers. There was solidity and a certain No ship could live in the harbour. confidence a confidence that faded So the garrison could expect no relief, and would have to fight on, rapidly soon after we landed.

should fighting be demanded, until Doleful Odyssey ..

it had exhausted the stores of Gibraltar was the beginning of food, water and Popmuzition doleful Odyssey. Undoubtedly it Then it would simply wait

The civilians were Jumpy, the is too much to say that we found:

a

Malta was in even worse state.

Their pre-But there was no sense of security.

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

it in a state of panic, but perhaps Services aminously quiet. Ameri "steria" is not too strong. The can cadets in the streets were of crop of rumours and the wave of the profound opinion that the apprehension would have persuaded Rock bad had its days new dere- One of Many Leslie Howard facists that it once the tutored to believe that the lopment had changed everything happened in a Londou theatre where Empire was only a myth, and While that is endangered noth- anyone had the right, whether he was getting experience in reper. British solidarity a vain imaginTrue, there were ships-of-war in the harbour, and the massive boom seems to ing else

matter. with or without a medical certi-tory. The company put on different ing. Whether by courage or by ficate,

The air was electric with mis-was ready to be drawn across as to dispose of his life shows every night and sometimes two

Within a stonethrow of a defence. There were destroyers. giving. cowardice, the efforts that a when he thought that he had different shows a day. This was most man will make when it comes ceased to be useful to the com-fusing to the cast.

One afternoon Howard forgot his the station another Power had The civil population was being in- That seems to be lines and rashed backstage to the concentrated a

force estimated structed in measures necessary to to the actual point of defend munity. ing his life, reach the limit of merely a problem of ethical company director. "Quick," the star variously up to 8,000 men, fall be taken against a gas attack. human action for good or evil dialectics, for if there is no re-asked, what's my line?

"Quick, the director returned, equipped-for what? according to the man's tem-covery there is nothing to be

"what's the play?"

Isence was attributed to different (Continued on Page 10) perament, and even the man done about it who says he is tired of life is Cases in which the person no exception The importance concerned is entirely compos of the subject rests therefore mentis and the act is voluntary on the fundamental function of only touch the fringe of the the State not merely to-defend problem. Such decisions are life, but to defend the citizen forbidden presumably because from the fear of death. It is there might sometimes be a only when the fear of death doubt about the voluntariness. has ceased to be present in a Many thinkers go much farther man's mind that he becomes into the question of the right fcapable of using life to the for the State to take life which Futmost and serving his fellows has become a mere travesty of with his highest faculties. That life, through insanity, con- .The the basis of the meticulous genital otherwise.

or care for the preservation of fundamental decision involved life which is the basis of the is whether a man's life ultim

ately is his own or belongs to law on the subject

In the recent post mortem the State Hegel and all his which is known as the Stern philosophical and political fol- case the facts proved were lowers say we belong to the that a young wife, devoted to State, and if we are useless to a young husband who was dying it, it can deny us the right to af tuberculosis and in great live. This is the fundamental pain, gave him a dose of poison doctrine of Fascism both in and then finished the cup her Germany and elsewhere, but self. They both died, and the our own tradition is that the legal verdict was murder and State exists for the man and suicide" But that verdict was not vice versa. There is the amere formality. Had the further question whether the wide survived, the moral ques congenitally insane person is tion would have come up for really a man in any proper argument at the trial or in sense of the word If the State course of consideration for a can take the life of such a petition for clemency. The crux patient. It can clearly resort to of the question of voluntary the minor exercise of power death arises in the Courts when involved in sterilisation. Here ja man is on trial either for our English - authorit

attempting to kill himself, or very cautions, and the inter- for killing another out of pityences to be drawn,

| Machiavelli's doctrine that a recorded

ruler is justified in "assassinat clear. There is ling a seditious subject who will lingering doubt if allowed to live cause many trectness of the deaths by promoting civil war the old twith that is generally rejected by the to madness nez modern conscience as leaving cos too much to the individual judg-feas in England ment of the ruler.

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