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YESTERDAYS.

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The First Blackmail

When Robert McGregor was.

born in 1671, the name of McGre

Ther and Everywhere.

gor had been proscribed by Act of GARIBALDI'S LONDON VISIT

All communications intended for Parliament for nearly a hundred publication should be addressed tear The Act made it a felony General Ezio Garibaldi, who the Editor, and be accompanied by Punishable by, death to bear the axived in London recently, is a the Writer's Name and Address that reason the famous

name of the Clan Gregor- For standson of the Liberator. Eis not necessarily for insertion, but

Scotch visit, he insisted, was a private freebooter was compelled to bear one, but as a personal friend of ļas a guarantee of good faith.

the name of Campbell, after his Mussolini and an influential "Fas- mother's claw; but he is best jeis-be is leader of the Red Shirt known as Rob Bor. (Red Robert) and Great War Veterans-he would from his ruddy hair" and com-be in a position to charity Italy's plexion.

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EMPLOYMENT

FALLACIES IN

LABOUR PARTYS ELECTION MANIFESTO

(By J. B. Firth)-

*Whilst deles of varying kinds donment would reduce large tracts have been dispensed on a lavish of East Anglia to ruin,' and be

Rob Roy's gang of freebooters. It is significant that shortly scale to industry" "efter industry, cause there is no other branch of were originally organised for the after the Nazis established them-sot a single constractize step has agriculture to which the beet Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 5, 1933. purpose of protecting their flocks selves in power he made a spirited been taken to improve the lot of growers could turn with reason-

from the depredations of Highland attack on Germany in the Italian the people." cattle thieves. Later they drifted Legislature, and stressed Italy phaseology of the pulpit

able hope of making a profit. TAKE text-to borrow the into a "protection racket", levying historical affinity with France.

Snowden's Effort Įtribute upon graziers in the wild

Other of Garibaldi's descendants from the recently published manithat the Beet Sugar Subsidy was It is, perhaps, worth mention Highland districts, in exchange for have not found it so easy to cor-festo entitled "The Labour Party's introduced by that eminent So- immunity from thieving pids form themselves to the Black Shirt Call for Power." It carries Mr-cialist, Lord Snowden, when he was The very timely and forcible That tribute became known regime as General Enzio Garibaldi.Attlee's 'signature. protest made in London by Sir "blackmail" from the black colour Aather of his grandsons, Colonel A scrupulous impartiality at the Exchequer, and is his one William Feel at a public dinner of the armour worn by Rob Roy's Giuseppi Garibaldi, after serving statement is not expected from an

creative effort that has survived. against the idea that the Bri-

with distinction in the Great War, election manifesto. But there are sidies granted

Let me turn to the other sub- tish Crown Colonies should be

Rob Roy died to the tame uf became associated with anti-limits to what is permissible in re Government:

by the National placed under the League of "We return no more" in 173, but Fascist agitation organised by the spect of unveracity. Those who Nations Mandates will, it is to the system of blackmail instituted Free Italy Association

The Herring Subsidy: In July, be hoped be taken into serious by him continued in the district

subscribed their names to the sen1934. the Treasury provided £35,- consideration by those who are until the middle of the 18th cen- CHALLENGE TO A DUEL

tence which I have quoted must 1000 for fitting out herring drift- as honourable mzen, have shut theirers, and a Hering Industry Board carried away by the hare brained suggestion. Quite!

In the autumn of 1924 he chal-eyes before they signed. probably not so much will be "Colonel, a 25-year-old farm lenged Mussolini to a duel, refused are and to what industries they rances for reconstructing boats, (was established with power to bor- Let us see what these "doles" row up to £1,000,000 and make ad- heard of it now that the gen-horse at the farm of Louis Buch-

to accept General Balbo 25 the 1 eral election has placed the ing, near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, has

Duce's substitute. and shortly course, is

have been dispensed "Dole," of buying gets and purchasing re- Conservatives in control of the recently surprised his owners by Yet another of the Liberator's chosen in order to create prejudice.

afterwards left Italy.

invidious word dundant vessels-- Cabinet as well as the House his antics as a hay baler. Colonel

All I ask is "Do the fishermen of Commons. It was a symp-bites of the

Charge Now Made fromd the coasts deserve this tom of the tendency to undue timothy or straw and rolls them 1927 after having been arrested tion to Unemployment Relief, and

baldi, was expelled from France in Socialists object to its applica latish dole, or do they not?" self-depreciation that steadily around with his nose until they for alleged complicity in a fare even the word Relier has been Government have guaranteed

Oil. from Coal: The National grew in England throughout form geometrical the premiership of Mr. Ramsay best firm that farm

and spheres

hands tastic project to invade Spain changed to Assistance, so that preference of 4d. per gallon on MacDoriald Any firm policy

Mr. across the French frontier and set Sensitive feelings may not be British oil produced from British has its dangers and difficulties, can play ball with them

wounded Subsidy is the word in coal by the new hydrogenation pro- but the lesson of the last few Buehring reports that it takes the up an independent Catalan State.

general use in connection with cess years is that a weak policy-has

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vast sums on experiments, w33" The charge against the Na-ready to invest another million of

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The first objection is that

Insty

The Strange Hay Baler

stubs of alfalfa,

horse about 15 hours to make one- sphere.

grandsons. Colonel Ricciotti Gari-

which was emphasised by stany and Italy are not getts successfully in Los Angeles, so national Government is that they lits own capital in a single plant at

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"Eddication"

The tion is comin' to. When I wport of the Greene Commission, and to advance £10,000,000 during

a

A flying automobile has been tested Iso much just now is that they we may full our ambition to pass a William, who is presumably destroyed their foreign credits roadhog without endangering par have giver lavish subsidies to Billingham-on-Tees. Twelve then- still Governor of Hong Kong, that such a proposal would be when a saner policy would have

or allowed them to be destroyed lives.

one industry after another. It is sand men, were employed in the strongly disliked by those who

intended to be conveyed that the construction, and it now gives re- "I have called to see why you with a careless hand. That

Treasury scattered public money gular employment to 4,000 men sort of ides at the back of the hostage given to sanity, sol school lately," said

overseas colony is a daughter Emily haszt attended

is who would otherwise be mem- mind of the theorists in the vency and security.

the school at easily said, and can be as readily ployed Labour Party who are avowed tecting nation must consider its cottage door."

The pro- tendance officer as he stood at the disproved.

A new industry has been creat- internationalists that English responsibilities before it endan

There is only one subsidy against)ed by this "lavish dole." Is that **Canse I think men who live abroad.

she's learnt which a charge of undue genero-good or bad? enough."

retorted Emily's mother, sity might possibly be supported, some way inferior to those who ers its international position.

shortly. stay at home at any rate for peaceful development, and a only passed through two

A Colony requires protection

Aids To Shipping" "Why," exclaimed the visitor she's and that is the Sugar Beet Sub-1 The Shipping Subsidy: The they have inferior rights to con- certain amount of guarantee of ye

classes sidy. Its cost last year was 2-National Government agreed to trol their own destiny. They solvency in the early stages of the woman.

878,000, and "Well, ain't that enough?" asked after carefully considering the re-extent of £2,000,000 during 1935, the Government, subsidise tramp shipping to the would probably say that the in some people who were to be consider-principle adopted by ourselves young, if a gal understood the ele decided to limit the acreage

special crisis.

“I dunno what eddies- led were not the European resi-is the somewhat stolid but in-ments

on the next two dents in the Colonies but the intelligible principle that a

of distraction, provision or which the subsidy shad be paid.

years on a "scrap de replenishin' an' the common comina-

and build scheme." Old tramp digenous peoples. That argu-i pendency ment takes for granted that self-government as it can pay ampires, she was reckoned

But they upheld the principle of steamers, that is to say, are to be can have as much to an knew all the rivers and their the subsidy, because of the valn-replaced by a smaller tonnage of

úbituaries, the provinces and the those peoples are anxious to get for, and in no case has any pub eddication enough to see her through British labour, because its aban-

so has able employment it provider for up-to-date new ships rid of the British connection mic money been transferred to order to come under the con- the relief of the British tax- trol of the Mandates Commis-payer. In case of a breakdown, sion, of which they have almost such as recently overwhelmed certainly never heard. Where Newfoundland, the Old Coon- is there any evidence of such a try has never refused help. It movement? Seventeen years has even by special subvention. ago any disaffected section had such as the shipping facilities an open field for demonstrations granted to the West Indies, of disloyalty What actually helped to establish new indus- happened was just the reverse, tries. but there is no need to recall athere would be better security Does anyone think that twice-told tale. There has been since then some unrest în

provided by the League?

It is Egypt, which is in form an in-stop this absurdity when it even more urgent to dependent country, and the pro-takes the form of a demand tests have been really against that the former German Co- the Egyptian Government lonies shall be restored. So far There has been some trouble in as Africe is concerned, the Malta, where Maltese and Eng South-West Protectorate has a lish are the media of instrucmajority of British subjects, tion in schools, and where the and its interests lie with the Italians wanted compulsory Ita Union of South Africa, its sole lian: but as Italian is an option-market. Tanganyika

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proportion of half the popula- The real demand is for free tion British, and it is a great or favoured raw materials for relief to the neighbouring ter- Europe from Africa, which is ritories not to have a difficult imagined as an inexhaustible foreign Power making trouble. mine monopalised by England There is, of course, no system. The fact is that that system of preferential duties in any has been practised by Germany mandated territory. Rendition in the old days, when it was would only be made a ground," not worth while for any foreign as happened before, for a big line of ships to put into Dar-es-navy and an aggressive policy ¡Salaam," and there is free trade against territories that other- between the French territories wise could give their attention and France while other people to primary production. have to pay customs. But inf:

the British territories any com At the weekly whist drive held pany that can finance itself has last Tuesday at the Cheero Club no trouble in getting every right prizes were won by the following: that is available for an English Ladies, 1st Mrs. Newnham, 2nd. company. There are actually Mrs. Boyles, Sealed No." Mrs. even now many such prosper Clark, Sentimen, 1st Mr. Scott, ous companies, and 20 years 2nd Mr-Bandy, Sezled No. Mr. ago there were many more.Anderton. Prizes were presented The products mineral or agri-{by Mrs. Deacon, while M- Medina cultural, are sold by, public and acted as MC. This was the first tier or negotiatum, and to de- week prive the producers of a free aggregat rket would only kill enter presented Paris is one of the big mont African mining be he Tesson why Gen lat 8.30

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(Continued on Page 11).

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert

Ripley

PATIN MEDICINE

GUY PATIN

FAMOUS FRENCH DOCTOR, 1502–1672

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RECOVERED

FROM

AGES

~CAUGHT A ONE DOLLAR BILL ON

- MIS-HOOK THE FIRST TIME HE

·EVER WENT FISHING