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THE CROSS OF MERCY

Humane Work In Many Wars

SWISS CITIZEN'S DREAM COME TRUE

Here There and DE

Everywhere.

A GREAT ARCHAEOLOGIST

LAVAL'S PLACE IN-

POLITICS

BORN WIRE-PULLER IN TEMPERAMENT

Dr. James Breasted, director of SOME FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC

PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED

(By HARRY HOPKINS) REOCCUPIED in following the Oriental Institute of Chicago, the moves of the rival "sides" whose death was recently an- on the Abyssinian chess-board, and nounced, had visited Egypt every by the political complications at winter since 1892, and, for the Geneva, many of us have been in last 13 years had been in charge danger of forgetting that thou-of five research expeditions ex- sands in Abyssinia are now dying cavating between the Black Sea lingering, cruel and panecessary and the Nile. deaths.

FOR

(By Andre Gerrard)

Pertinax Of The Echo de Paris"

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OR all practical purposes the at any rate, a state of affairs where electoral campaign has al-the majority would again play its proper part and the necessary day- The cost of this huge under-ready begun in France. But the Red Cross has not for-

The foreign and the home to-day compromises would be ar

Laval rived at with the minority. gotten. Once again this great or-taking has largely been met by

from the Rockefeller policy carried out by Mr.

Revival Methods Hong Kong, Monday, March 9, 1936ganisation is mobilised for the stan

hardest battle of all the battle to Trust. It has for the first time which, for so long, raised against).

In short, they have tried to re made possible thè proper co-him the anger of the Left and, last save as much of humanity as it can

archaeological month, brought about the disloca-vive the methods upon which the The Issue In Europe from the wreck towards which its ordination of all

tion of his Cabinet, will be praised Third Repablic had lived up till excavation in the Near East.

are the soul of jown folly precipitates it.

One of Dr. Breasted's most for censured with unabated vehe-1934 and which

They It seems ironical, but it is the In a leading article published

in mence all over the country.

Parliamentary government. Seldom has a Prime Minister have conspicuously failed. M in the China Moz last Tuesday modern way for men to devise new ambitious digs was recently

Dr. Henri Frankfort, his under the heading "And Now and more terrible kinds of Death. Irak.

as final, and, is convinced that he What?" we discussed the poli and then with equal enthusiasm field director for the Irak section, caused such a commotion. Let me Laval refuses to accept his defest litical prospects in Europe with turn round and work to save any few to Bagdad to start work. Hejtry to explain.

has 600 Arabs working under him Since the sanguinary distur- has a better chance than his pre- particular reference to the con- body who happens to get hurt.

bances of February, 1934, political decessors in office. What policy land 12 Europeams.

life in France has been by nojdoes he stand for? Where lies his sequences to be expected from Italy's campaign in East Africa. It is not long age

means normal and the rules of the strength? We expressed the opinion that wounded were left to rot and die SULTAN'S STOLEN PLATE

Constitution are observed only in In a way he was well fitted for the outlook for the peace of on the battlefield without a care.

appearance.

the task A quarter of a century The Sultan of Johore, who gave Europe was bad, since other na But to-day though war submerges

On the one hand, the Parliamen-ago he started as an extreme So- the revol- tions. observing the success of the world, and mankind seems to a Jubilee gift of £500,000 to the Italy's policy or should one go back to the jungie whence it Singapore Base, has had a silver tary majority of Radical-Socialists cialist bordering on say, the failure of the collective came, there is always the Red hair-brush stolen by a European and Socialists elected in May, tionary. In 1914 he was one of 1932, has lost that monopoly of the two deputies whose names had system to function as it should? Cross to keep the flag of civilisa-visitor.

would be likely to follow her tion dying.

It is not the first time that the the executive authority which nor-been put by the Ministry of the example and take matters into It was upon Italian soil at the Sultan bas suffered in this way. mally it ought to possess. Party Interior upon "Carnet B"-that is, their own hands. In this con- Battle of Solferino in 1953, when His palace at Johore Bahru, which government. in the full sense of upon the list of men to be placed nection we asked: "What then? Italy herself, then poor, puny, and is joined to Singapore Island by the expression, has been left infunder arrest in case of general Does Germany, with the suc-oppressed, was struggling to throw a causeway, contains the famous abeyance and a Prime Minister of mobilisation. cessful example of Italy fresh to of the Imperial Austrian yoke.Ellenborough Plate.

In Other Days

since the

meat by the intervention of easy- going and kind-hearted M. Herrict,

National Union" designated on He was only saved from confre- mind, take the bit between her that this great idea of the Red Years ago it was exhibited to every occasion. teeth and use the

forceful Cross was born in the mind of a the public. Since eraising became method?" There is only melan- Swiss citizen. Jean Hear Duna-fashionable the Sultan has been choly satisfaction to be had out

Threat Of The Leagues

On the other hand, a very vocal who, as a brilliant professor of

rank.

He wrote a book describing how compelled reluctantly to hide part of public opinion insists that rhetoric, had known him at the of finding that the surmise has he had seen with his own eyes the Too many first-class passengers the corrupt State must reform it-lycee of Lyons, where he served been only too amply borne out wounded left in heaps to bleed to saw no harm in borrowing a gold self, and, several "leagues" have as a humble teacher of the lower by the sequel. Germany has death. He proposed the formation salt spoon as a memento of their been organised to hold in check taken a step which is filled with of a sort of international corps of first trip East. the most menacing possibilities Florence Nightingales, fully equip for the peace of Europe and the ped, resolute, waiting for the call.. world. She has, at one stroke. (Continued on Page 7) taken the initiative in the most

Your Daily Smile!

Small boy to tar tender-"Pint of don't put so much element in it”

"Element, element? Oh, I know, Your father means sediment."

"Don't know what the element, but that's what the sediment."

serious matter of a direct con- EXPLANATION OF bitter for father, please, and he says travention of the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops to occupy the de- militarised Rhineland zone. In addition she has denounced the

Locarno Pact. And she has done Iso at the one moment when these things will be most em barrasing for the signatories of the treaties concerned, includ-

TO-DAY'S CARTOON

The White King Of The Zulus

During The War the legislative power whenever it

During the war Pierre Laval was Jendeavours to ignore what is re garded by them as the general in-fin active sympathy with the pro- moters of the Socialist Eterna- terest.

Every time the groups of the tionalist Congresses held at Zim Left are seen to raise their head merwald and Kienthal. A speech and assert their influence, every of his delivered in one of the Chamber time they declare that the truce secret sittings of the must come to an end, threats are (June, 1917) reached the acme of if acted epon, demoralising pacifism. Referring uttered which, would mean the break-up of the to the famous congress which was two antagonistic to take place under the leadership The new maid was full of her own country into importance. She had worked on the campoa kind of civil war More of the Russian revolutionaries, he the went so far as to exclaim: "It Continent and felt superior to the immediately, the credit of

State suffers and the short-term must be our polar star!" The breach with the One day she was telling "below debt threatens to give trouble. stairs" some of her experiences.

MM. Doumergue and Flandin Left happened in 1920 upon the "How do the foreign dishes com-

the issue of relations with Moscow, tried to bridge over pare to English ones?" asked one have

abyss, to initiate a policy of gen-which he favoured in defiance of

(Continued On Page 10) of her audience

"Oh," replied the maid airily, "they era? reconciliation, to bring about, break just the same.”

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Dishes Are Dishes/

ing, most unfortunately, our JON Dunn, born in 1839, white other servants.

selves.

chief of Zululand, is to be numbered among the most pic- The extreme importance of turesque adventurers of Africa her action cannot possibly be He was a cattle driver at the age belittled. It does not constitute of 14 Before he came of age, he the first breach of the Versailles was elected one of the chieftains At the outbreak of provisions by a long chalk; but of Zululand. it is certainly the most vital of the Zulu War, Dunn was the ruler them. Moreover, in fairness to of a large territory and the head Germany it must be admitted of a considerable family. He ac-! that the action comes as the quired 40 wives, buying them on sequel to a long list of humilia-the cattle exchange plan. These tions, frustrations and other wives bore him a total of 120 chil- manifestations of an implacable dren of whom 79 are living to-day. (1879) hostility and desire for revenge During the Zulu War.

Out of

on the part of France. The Dunn, at the head of 2,000 war- original terms of the treaty riors, joined the British against Out of gratitude, the were harsh to the point of the Zalne lunacy; every single overture British Government assigned a towards an honourable and large territory to Dunn. peaceful revision of them has this territory every descendant of been rejected out of hand by Dunn is entitled to 100 acres to- France, who has insisted on her day. The Natal Government has pound of fesh: it was only with recently confirmed this grant. the greatest difficulty that the

Allied army of occupation was of the treaty by a recourse to withdrawn. at the urgent insist force. There is surely not the ence of Britain and America, slightest doubt about which after years of humiliating course should be taken. There seignorship in the Rhineland is a chance, now that Germany when France went so far as to has forced the issue, for a com- use coloured troops for the purplete renunciation of the bitter- pose the crowning insult to ness of the past by the, frank a proud race. The financial recognition that Germany will provisions, with their grotesque not be kept down for ever. The insistence on reparations,, were nation is in an ugly mood. The only abandoned after it was last thing desired is another demonstrated beyond all man-trial of strength, resulting in ner of doubt that they could not all the horrors and tragedies possibly be enforced. In short of war. On France's atti ft has been more than evident tude depends the whole issue.) for years past that a revision of England has already shown, by the terms of the treaty would her acceptance of the naval have to come sooner or later agreement with Germany and either by mutual concessions, her favitation, uttered shortly peaceably, or by the milateral before Herr Hitler's Reichstag denunciation of them on the speech, for a western air part, part of Germany, with its pos- that she is willing to recognise sibilities of further strife.

the justice of Germany's claim Germany has chosen the lat-to a fitting place in the cornity ter course, for better or for of nations. Only France has worse. What the consequences hitherto refused to see any fur- will be remain to be seen. Only the than the end of her nose. two courses are open to the Whether or not the vision of other signatories of the treaty: her people and her statesmen is they can either accept the new to be extended to include the position with as good a grace broad vista of the years ahead as possible and seek to minimise is now a square issue which the its potentialities for disaster by country must consider Herr using the new basis of relations Hitler has seen to that by tak÷1 as the starting point for a coming full advantage of his time plete re-orientation of all the and his opportunity. The issue fundamentals concerned; or will have to be faced now, and they can implement the "letter faced squarely.

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

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IN THE GAY NINETIES" THIS YOUNG LADY WAS ARRESTED IN NEW YORK AND CHARGED WITH INDECENT EXPOSURE

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MARRIED 40 WIVES

AND WAS THE FATHER OF120 CHILDREN

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