1936-07-10 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1936-

FUTURE OUTLOOK

FOR SOUTH AFRICA

(Continued from Page 6)

다.

Naval Base At Simonstown

"You are credited with being

pro-German, as opposed to pro-] British, and believing that the future rests with Germany rather than the British Empire. You went. I believe, to Germany, were made much of and were duly im- pressed?" I asked.

1. "South Africa and the British Empire." he replied, "have 99 9-10ths of their interests in com- mon to-day, so we stand together.

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uot in common I would not agree to South Africa sacrificing herself, nor would I expect England to do so."

Janet Gaynor is the star of **Small Town Girl" now showing at the King's Theatre.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS British feet in Simonstown. The jeply.

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From

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Abori

Destinazion

14,500 11th July Bombay, Marseilles & London

Marseilles, Havre.", London, Ham- 6,000 18th July

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Straits, Bombay, Karachi. Bombay. Marseilles & London.

London Ham- Marseilles, Havre,

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SRANCHI *MIRZAPORE

17,000 25th July

SNALDERA

**SOMALI

7,000 16,000 8,000

3rd Aug. 8th Aug. 15th Aug

$KAISER-HIND

SRAJPUTANA

BANGALORE

CHITRAL

RANPURA

**BEUTAN

+

11,000 22nd Aug. 17,000 5th Sept 6,000 12th Sept 15,000 19th Sept 3rd Oct. 17,000

6,000 10th Oct.

burg.

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SHOP MURDER IN CROWDED AREA

Owner Battered To Death

BRUTAL CARDIFF CRIME

a

Cardiff.-One of the most brutal murders in the history of Cardiff

at was committed last month lock-up grocer's shop in Croft- street of City-road, Cardiff. The! victim was the proprietor, Mr. Stephen Gilbert, aged 43.

When the police, at the requestį of Gilbert's wife, who lives in Cottrell-road, went to the shop one morning they forced an entry and Sound him lying dead in, the store- room at the rear of the premises.

There was every evidence of a terrible struggle having taken: place, the man's head, and face being battered almost beyond re-

F

Police Appeal " Later in the day the police issu-. ed a statement of the crime and an appeal broadcast in the West Regional programme, to anyone with who saw a man or woman

"From some of your speeches I deduce." I continued, "that you re- sent the British Navy retaining : naval base in Simonstown. Were Empire would crash, and all the cognition.

There was one spectator of it; you in power should we in Eng- nations go out to seize what they land have to count on a hostile could out of the tremendous rains. all, a Persian cat on which the

South Africa-athough if one dead man doted. South Africa behind our naval.

An emmination of the premises base here? If so it would be bet- believes all its people say one ter if we faced the fact and went would believe it was cursed with showed that the takings from the all the plagues-is a land of the day before-a substantial amount to Mauritius?”

"Your deductions and ideas are biest, rich and capable of holding-were missing. quite wrong. I do act resent the a vast population, and almost whole strategy of the Empire has They say there that the people changed. Cape Town is now once are hungry for land. It is the more the half-way house to the land that is hungry for men. East and to Singapore. We have Prey To New Settlers

the British it has all that the overcrowded bloodstains on his or her clothes an agreement with Government for a naval base at uations of Europe and the East de after 9.15 p.m. the previous Satur- I shall work to keep side-gold and land and they day to come forward. The 28- Simonstown. that agreement not only in the would come not in their hundreds sailant, it was stated, might have letter but in the spirit.

of thousands but in their millions scratches on the face and hands. "I consider the British Ad-to enjoy it.

and clothing was likely to have They would not come as the been torn in the struggle. (miralty are wrong to keep only a

The shop has been broken into small ship there. It can have no English came to the Boer War, to

a nominal suzerainty, four times recently.

clothes A large staff of plain ship could have that. If it is for but to own and to colonise the moral effect then I believe that land acre by acre, with men and and uniformed police combed the

circling aeroplanes

over land women used to poor soil, hard district following the discovery of would have far more effect than a work, and the competition of the crime

Europe. They would breed large During the day Dr. Harrison, ship at sea.

the Cardiff Hostile S. Africa Unthinkable" families, and would not be ashamed scientific adviser to "As to a hostile South Africa, to do the work now done by na-City Police, Dr. J. J. Buist, the that is unthinkable. We should (tives and which the whites des-Cardiff City Police Surgeon, and

members of the scientific depart-1 have to have a civil war here be-pise..

Capable, hardy, and thiftyment were present at the shop and fore that"

"And in case of a great war. workers, they would live on very much importance is attached Would you remain neutral?" I ask-little, so that they would absorb several of their discoveries. led.

or destroy the present inhabitants,

Extensive Business "Tell me first," he replied, side-and the handful of white people in

Gilbert had managed the pre- stepping the question, for every South Africa, some million and mises for several years for Mr. T. Englishman and Dutchman in three-quarters in all would be King, until five months ago South Africa was asking the same too puny and helpless, without the wher he acquired the business from

it was at the end of April-"tell combined strength of the Empire his old employer. me first with whom and against behind them, to resist.

The business is said to be an But my conclusions are that extensive one and to have grown whom England will be fighting."

Firow is brisk, shrewd and prae- given time, and not used by poli-since Gilbert became the proprie tical a getter. As so many Ger- ticians unscrupulously for their tor. It is situated in

a typical 1st Aug. Singapore. Port Swettenham, mans and English feel it, despite own selfish ends, the English and working-class district, and every- the Great War. I felt a bond of Dutch of South Africa will weld body in the vicinity of the shop been quite well seems to have common mentality and outlook as into one nation, and that nation

will be Imperial-minded. In the aware of the man's babit of stay- I talked with him.

Two months ago I made general modern sense. It will realise, in ing on after 9.15, which is clas

that its interests and ing time, on Saturdays for the enquiries in South Africa on the time, question of the part the country strength lie not in islation Lut in purpose of checking up his takings would play in any war in which co-operation with the other mem and making up his books.

bers of the British Commonwealth the Empire might be engaged.

RAWALPINDI .. 17.000 17th Oct.

6,000 24th Oct.

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NALDERA

COMORIN

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INHIBITED VICAR

Discharge From Bankruptcy

I found that, though it was clear of Free Nations. that many Dutch as well as Eng: fish would volunteer for such a war, yet, whether they were mem- bers of the Parliament then sitting in Cape Town, or Dutch farmers and their wives in the Karoo or a thousand miles farther north be- yond Pretoria, or Englishmen in the Cape, in Johannesburg or Dur- ban, they one and all had the same ideas-any war would be far away in Europe or the East, and at such an immense distance from the that South Africa had best remain neutral, and that such neutrality would be respected.

Dangers Of "Neutrality” Both for the Empire and for a perilous

(EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS South Africa this is

NELLORE

TANDA

NANKIN

7,000 1st Aug. 7,000 4th Sept 7,000

2nd Oct Melbourne & Hobart.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

"SOMALI

KAISER-I-HIND

TALMA

TANDA

"BANGALORE

BOUND FOR WORKHOUSE

the in- Dr. Samuel Shannon, bibited Vicar of St. Luke's, Leices ter, was granted his discharge) from bankruptcy, subject to three months” suspension, by Judge J. F. W. Galbraith, KC, at Leicester County Court recently.

It was stated that the sequestra-į

.

to

It is believed that the crime; (was perpetrated not long after Gilbert had put up his shutters. At that time or shortly after the street must have been thickly po- pulated by children still playing and by hundreds of people making their way to and from City-road, which is one of the main thorough- fares of the city.

SOUTH AFRICAN CHARGES

Missing Gold Bar Mystery

Johannesburg-Roel

Abraham

attitude for the Empire because tion order made against Dr. Shan Beyers, a railway checker, who Manila, Babaul, Brisbane, Sydney the Mediterranean has become a non 12 months ago came to an endwas sentenced in May to three flake impossible for any nation to on July 27, when the Bishop had ears imprisonment for the theft

control by sea or air, so that Cape the power to declare the living

of a gold bar, gave evidence last Town has once again become half-void. The Bishop, however, had a

month against Major S. P. E way house to the East and Singa- further two months in which to Fourie, of the railway police, and This makes it also the use his discretion, and the suspen Johannesburg,, who are charged Mr. S. M. Fine, a merchant, of geographical centre of the Empire,sion. from bankruptcy would

with being accessories after the Its strategical importance has operate within that period.

fact. grown, therefore, immensely.

Workhouse Alternative

7,000 15th July Shanghai & Japan.

11,000 23rd July Shanghai & Japan.

10,000 23rd July Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.

7,000

6,000

2nd Aug. Shanghai & Japan.

5th Aug. Shanghai & Japan:

新川

SIRDHANA

RAJPUTANA

SHIRALA

CHITRAL

8,000

17,000

6th Ang. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.

6th Ang, Shanghai & Japan.

8,000 20th Aug. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.

15,000 20th Aug. Shanghai & Japan.

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"All's well

PEO

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For South Africa it is equally Mr. B. Edwards, who appeared He said that be sold a quarter ( unsound, for there is no reason to for Dr. Shannon, said that if D. of the bar of gold, but left the rest suppose that her neutrality Shannon was not put back into buried as a "nest-egg" for when would be respected If England his church it would mean that he he came out of gaol. He alleged should be on the winning side would have to go to the workhouse that Major Fourie and Mr. Fine South Africa would reap the be-)

The Official Receiver said that a met him by arrangement after his nefit, but with the loss of her self-dividend of about is in the pound release. on bail and dug for the esteem: a thing no young nation would be paid, Liabilities were sold for half an hour at the wrong can afford. If England had to£310. compromise with her enemies

The Official Receiver stated that Beyers said that he misled them then parts of Africa would have to last year Dr. Shannon refused to because he saw two suspicious

spot

3

Fu Tartar inf nation, Passage, Freight, Handbecks, etc., apply old German colonies back to Cerruptcy, and when brought before feared that Fourie and Fine had

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go as payment for instance, the answer questions in his bank-characters hanging about and may--and that is the one thing the indize at the county court was set a trap for him. which enrages » every South committed to prison for contempt, The defence then took the line African, however die-hard anti-and he was there for nearly nine of asking whether the gold bar British be may be, even to con-months. Since submitting to the ever existed. It applied to the P&O BUILDING. CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG Jafdezpetopak et pray for bankruptcy on his release from court to compel Beyers to give the It England were smashed and prison: Dr. Shannon's conduct hadiname of the man who bought a Ithe British Navy destroyed, the been satisfactory:Som

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