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OKADA'S ESCAPE IN TOKYO REVOLT

HIDDEN FOR A DAY

AND A NIGHT

SECRETARY'S SUCCESSFUL PLOT TO

DECEIVE REBELS

the Government" will be supported blished a handbook of the Tigre HOW Admiral Okada, the former Japanese The Minor Be language, presumably for the use Prime Minister, escaped from the rebels publican Group has also decided of the troops.

after they had attempted to assassinate him is proverbs told in an official statement published in the Parliament to grant it plenary which are perhaps included as ap"Japan Chronicle.”

order to

to support the Government.

The Government intends to ask

powers till October in

The handbook concludes with zi {selection

native of

The rebels in the Tokyo revolt last month, thought they had The soldiers who have studied shot, Admiral Okada, actually it was his brother-in-law, whom problems without the previous con- the book will be able to inform the they killed.

natives that a people without education is like food

Hong Kong, Thursday, April 16, 1936 provide an opportunity to deal Propriate for the campaign.

with some urgent national defence

Isultation of Parliament.

For This Relief

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Much Thanks

salt"

Admiral Okada hid all day and night in a closet and was without assisted to escape with the men who went to mourn his death.

This officially released information says that a little after 5 enougham. the Premier's official residence was raided. The ominus other:sound of the emergency siren installed after the assassination of "Pa-the late Mr. Inukai, announced the raid to all in the residence.

Late Premier's Funeral

I progress is not fast The funeral of Premier Demer-they can murmur to each There is deep cause for satis-

zehero a'amro" faction in the British revenue dzis, who died suddenly on Easterat figures for the last financial Sunday morning, took place entience is the greatest wealth.”

year ended March 31 in a Tuesday in the presence (world where unbalanced large crowd.

budgets and financial stringency

of

3

GENTLEMAN RIDER BANKER

Tas

Colonel Matsuo and two went into the dead Colonel's bed- maids sprang out of their beds room. Once again, footsteps ap King George II. the Greek Heir]

and were soon joined by twoproached, and the Premier policemen who had been in a forced by the maids into the closet-· ́ are the rule rather than the Apparent, all the members of the exception. One is sorely tempt-Cabinet. high ecclesiastical digni- A director of the Bank of Eng-bedroom near the porch. After of the room.

representatives of the land was recently in the news. He switching off all lights, the A gendarme and a rebel officer ed to moralise when contemn-taries.

Colonel

into went

Admiral came into the room and asked the the various is Mr. E. Holland-Martin. He ap- Corps. plating the figures; there is so Diplomatic

-departments. the peared, however, in the racing and Okada's bed-room and explained maids whether there was anybody! much cause for the Pharisaical Government

else there. The maids replied that thanking of providence that we Army and the Navy, took part in not the financial columns of the the situation.

Admiral Okada thought that all there was nobody else, but the re- in And the funeral service

Athens paperS. are not as other men.

As the winning owner-rider in was up, and made no attempt at bel officer, suspecting someone in though perhaps this is hardly Cathedral. The garrison of the

last escape, saying it would be useless.it, made as if to open the door. the truly Christian outlook, one Greek capital rendered military two big steeplechase races

The Colonel and others grew im- The gendarme stepped up, how- would be less than human if a honours to the deceased states-month one at Shirley and the

Premier ever, and asked him to leave every- certain feeling of satisfaction men.

fother at Cheltenham Mr. Hol patient, and forced the did not intervene. First of all' The new Premier, General Me-land-Martin was busy receiving out of the room, the Colonel lead-thing in his hands,

Late At Night there was a surplus for the year taxas, in his memorial address the congratulations of his many ing the way and the two police

men protecting him on both sides. It was not, however, until about of £2.041,000. An analysis of stressed that the entire life of the friends.

The two maids followed their mas-9 pm. that night that Mr. Fukuda. the They did not note the figures reveals that national late statesman had been devoted

Admiral 'Olada's private secretary, - expenditure at £749,979,000 solely to the interests of the State cidence that the rate of one of ter

Policemen's Presence Of Mind knew for the first time that it was £16.000,000 in excess of land the welfare of the Greek the horses he beat in the United

There was no time to be lost, was Colonel Matsuo, not the Pre- the budget estimates, and re-people.-Trans-Ocean Service.

and venue at £752.920,000. no less

and when they came to a lavatory. mier, who had been killed. Policeman Doi pushed the Premier that the Premier was still safe than 18,500,000 more. The

into it, and shut the door on him.somewhere in the official residence. Immediately afterwards, the two Then the difficult task began of policemen were shot just outside getting the Premier out of the the door, while Colonel Matsuo residence without detection. met his end in the courtyard. As soon as the Premier's official As the footsteps of the raiders residence was raided, Mr. Fukuda Cease Firing

bis went there to ascertain the Pre- Shipping Clerk (reading report of vanished in the direction of Cabinet Minister's speech): "I hope bedroom, Admiral Okada quietly mier's safety, but the six soldiers this is true. He says that the battle opened the door of the lavatory to who were on guard at the entrance against depression is won."

death

biggest increase in any indivi- EXPLANATION OF

TO-DAY'S CARTOON

coin-

Hunts Challenge Cup at Chelten- bam suggested a connection with the Bank of England.

It was called Monty's Hero.

Your Daily Smile!

dual item was for Customs and Excise. which yielded £8,500,- 1000 more than estimated. Estate duties yielded £8,000,000 imore, income tax $6,500,000 imore, receipts from stamps and The High Tree Of

minor inland revenues about

The Highway £500.000, the last figure being balanced by the decreased yield

Colleagues: "Let's show that to the get out, when Policeman Dei, who would not let him in. Many un- CURIOUS and beautiful of the same amount from the

agony.easy hours passed and at about 9 was lying in his tree is the elm in the boss and perhaps be will cease warned the Premier to

stat in pm.. Mr. Sakomidzu, the Premier's surtax.

the At the end, of

son-in-law, who was also his private financial year the floating debt middle of Highway 60. a few ing."

Narrow Escape

secretary, rang him up on the stood at £781,170.000 as against miles cast of Fairland, Okla.

An ominous silence ensued, and phone. It was agreed between £833,380,000 a year before, and The tree is as secure in its was made up of Treasury bills existence as the State itself. table are artificial, aren't they?" the Premier then left his hiding-them that they should visit the

A

to

*

+

*

Necessity

"I say, waiter, the flowers on this

"Yes, sir. That's the worst of run-

Too Full

hiding.

Maks

to the value of £763.115.000 and because no one would dare cut ways and means borrowings it down. It was planted years ning a vegetarian restaurant-if we place and went into his bed-room. Premier's official residence toge- cat On his bed he found the dead body ther, and make another request

of his brother-in-law, Colonel for admission. from public departments of age by a boy on his father's use real flowers the customers

Matsuo.

"To See The Body" £19,055,000. Authority obtain farm. When the tree was just them:" led in the Finance Act to borrow a sapling, the boy died; and

Imagining that all danger

They asked the rebel leaders for sinking funds was not exer-when it became necessary

"If you are tired of dancing, let past, the Premier was going to there for permission to see cised during the year, and the straighten the highway the us sit down and have a little tete-a-dress when a crashing sound was Premier's body, and their request figure for expenditure includes strip of ground was deeded to tete"

of the State, with the specific pro- "No, thank you. After such a big again heard. He retired into his was granted. £12,500,000 paid by means

Continued on Page 11) sinking funds for the redemp-vision that the tree would never supper I really couldn't eat a thing former hiding-place, and Inter tion of debt, so that the revenue be disturbed.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

for the year exceeded expendi-

ture, other than that for debt Gold Or Pansy Seeds?

MANY things are more valu-

redemption, by $15,500,000. The budget further provided for expenditure on the supply ser-

able than gold-even vices, other than for the Post pansy seeds! A pound of gold, Office, of £490,500,000, with a figured at the present value, as further margin of £8,000,000 stated by the US. Treasury, is for supplementary estimates. about U.S.$450.00 2 pound. including the cost to the Exche-whereas pansy seed retails for quer, of the full restoration of about U.S.$600.00 a pound, bas- the emergency pay reductions ed on various prices charged for made in 1931.

small packets of seed weighing The difficulties of the year only a small fraction

of ar and the additional expenditure ounce. involved by feet movements

and other precautionary mea-

re-

sures accounted for a supple-try. His sane finance, his abso- imentary estimate of £13,100,-lute refusal to be stampeded 1000 for defence out of a total into experimentation, his plod-i of £29,750,000, which is the ding sobriety and conservatism. only really adverse feature of of outlook have all accomplished the year's outgoings. The this latter-day miracle of a charge for the National Debt country brought from the verge was fixed for the year at £224,-of disaster to

2 position of 000,000. The charge for in-something like affluence in the terest and management, in fact, short space of four and a half only, zmounted to £211,500,000. years.

1931 In September leaving a margin of £12,500,000 England was perilously near for the sinking fund, which has the rocks. Socialist methods of been applied to the redemption finance had been tried and de- jof debt.

The finitely found anting. In short, the nation can con- appeal to the country to pull ratulate itself on once more itself into shape found a demonstrating a steady advance markable response, which in towards the spacious days of itself was one of the minor yesteryear. Even at the risk miracles of an age of unreason. of the accusation of being tire- Credit must be given where cre- isomely repetitive, we feel con-dit is due for a stupendous strained once again to point to jeffort on the part of the people the obvious moral of all this as a whole, without which we which is that real recovery can should not have had the results only be attained by the exercise to show that we have today. of caution, making haste slow-But to the man who" directed,| ly, and the absolute elimination inspired and engineered it most of all harebrained experiments also go his meed of recognition. at socialisation, nationalisation, Mr. Neville Chamberlain is one rationalisation and all the other of the greatest assets, of the “isations" which the amateur nation. It is fervently to be economists would suggest. Mr. hoped that he will continue to Neville Chamberlain emerges guide its financial destinies from all this as one of the until his work has been fully strongest bulwarks of the coun-accomplished.

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WRIGHT WON &

AND HE WERE

THE

OF THE HIGHWAY

HIGH TREE

THIS TREE GROWING IN THE MIDDLE OF 0.5, HIGHWAY 60

· WILL NEVER BE CUT DOWN!

THE LAND FOR THE HIGHWAY

WAS DEEDED TO THE STATE WITH

THE PROVISO THAT THE TREE

NOT BE DISTURBED

A POOND OF PANSY SÉLP,

́ ́ES-WOREM, NODE TAAN

A POUND OF COLD

-Fairland Oklahoma

Spey

DRAWN IN ONE CONTINUOUS LINE

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