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EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

TEMPLE BUILT

IN 24 DAYS

Here There and

Everywhere.

THE "Hut-of 23 Days", # PICASSO AT THE FRADO

called, of Ajmer, RajputanA

Nothing in Picasso's restless All communications intended for is one of the finest and most, îm- publication should be addressed to posing structures in all India. It artistic career can equal his tem- the Editor, and be accompanied by was originally a Jain Temple and pestuous tenure of the Director- the Writer's Name and Address was converted into a Mohammedan ship of the Prado Gallery. He was not necessarily for insertion, but mosque in the 12th century. The appointed to the past two months

roof is supported by 40 columns,ago. as a guarantee of good faith.

no two of which are alike. Its

The Prado is on the far side of Subscription Bates.

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ANNOUNCEMENT

END TO POST-WAR PLANNING

BELGIUM'S DECISION

OUTLINED

WITHDRAWAL FROM DEFENCE AGREEMENTS

(By P. J. Philip)

tion that this structure, was, com where the fighting has been taking Buced recently by King sion political opinion undoubt. ELGIUM'S decision, an-1 In the reaching of that deci

pleted in 2 days

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place. But its position makes it highly vulnerable if the National-Leopold, to pursue a policy ex-edly had some influence, but ista attempt an encircling moveclusively Belgian, with the ob-that political opinion was only ment from the north.

ject of keeping war away from an expression of the general The glory of the Prado is its her territory, has changed the opinion that neither allian- Velazquez collection. Nowhere eise equilibrium of Western Europe ces

schemes of collec- "Oh, it was a great success," said can the great Spanish painter be as it had existed since the endtive security could ever avail authors “Every time I sent it out it properly studied. While the Prado of the war.

to prevent Belgium from being The Reception arranged for

By this act Belgium has overrun before effective help |contains "well over 50 major exam-}

ples of his art, the National Gal-passed from the old Allied camp was forthcoming. Even so it is p.m. to-day at 293 The Peak fol-

Very Catting

into a position of strong neu-possible that a majority of the lowing upon the marriage of Mr.

A doctor presented his bill to the fly has a mere half-dozen

It is understood that Picasso trality. It is contended that Belgian people would have pre- Alistair Drummond to Miss Lea-executor of the estate of a deceased

has taken the precaution of hav-Ishe has not severed in any way (ferred to try to continue main- nore Urmston has been postponed patient.

"Do you wish to have my billing the Velazquez pictures remov-the cords of friendship and in-taining the position of indepen- until to-morrow, Wednesday, De-

sworn to?" he asked.

Jed from Madrid.

terest that bind her to France. (dence rather proadly claimed Icember 23rd at 12:30 pm. in Lane)

"No." answered the executor, thei Crawford's Reception Boom (Ex-death of the patient is sufficient change Building, First Floor). evidence of your services.”

DEATH

Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1936.)

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neighbours.

That argument has been the decisive onc in this decision. At

Their destination has not been But it is nevertheless admitted at the end of the war. stated, but the rumour that they that henceforth Belgium, which Air Warfare Makes Difference have been sent to Russia may not has been so often in the But-and in this both civilians past the battlefield of Europe, and soldiers agreed-the develop- danger of being lost because

They must be worth many mi-must be considered as outsidement of air warfare has made it the prevalence of malaria had lions, and would form a useful all schemes for collective utterly impossible for Belgium to BARLOW3. D. G. Barlow of depleted the ranks of the farm backing for * credit from the security.

do otherwise than declare her nou- Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank-labourers to such-an extent that

Soviet.

Behind this decision of the trality and separate herself from ing Corporation at Dairen. there was insufficient labour to

Belgian Government lies, of all coalitions. For in half Accidentally killed while out gather it in. There is a classi-AUSTRALIA'S INSKIP

course, just that wish to avoid hour, however developed, however shooting on 20th December. fied record of deaths in the

being again Europe's battle gallant her air defenders might various parishes of London for Sir Archdale Parkhill, who den-field. For years past the be, her densely populated cities the year of the Great Plague, ies that the Commonwealth Gov-Flemish and Francophile parties and towns could be wiped out by 1665. Sixty-three causes aferiment contemplates conscrip-have been arguing this ques-the air force of any one of her big death are recorded, and though tion, car speak with something tion. the plague claims an over-more than the normal Ministerial

Two Courses Open whelming number of victims, authority on such a subject. the record shows "Agne and As Minister of Defence he com- Only two courses were open: Feavers" to be the next most bines the roles of Mr. Duff Cooper, Either Belgium must throw in all costs Belgium must keep out If kings succumb to the worm potent cause, its victims aum-Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Swin- her lot completely with France of the disputes of her neighbours. it is only after they are dead; bering 5.257. Crude diagnosis tou in the British Cabinet.

In France the Belgian de- He and continue the Maginot line but living empires have fallen and the inclusion of fevers that therefore takes the duties of Sir of fortifications along her east-cision is regarded as having ad- before the attacks of a con-were not agues no doubt infiste Thomas Inskip here in his stride. ern frontier in the expectation antages as well as disadvantages. temptible little gnat. To-day the numbers, but it is certain No Australian statesman un-that France and Great Britain It will be necessary to get Bel- when we have studied his that the mosquito must have derstands better the arts of party would help her resistance there, gium's neutrality put in treaty strategy and arrived at some found a glorious opportunity management than Sir Archdale or she must, declare her neu forta at Geneva in the same way understanding of his tactics the for breeding in the stagnant Parkhill. It was his driving force trality and take what measures as the Swiss did when they joined mosquito is still able to claim filth of the pre-Fire London as organiser of the Nationalist she could to assure by herself the League of Nations That will vast armies of victims every streets, and played havoc with party which marked him out for respect for that neutrality. make infringement of the neu- year. Three and a half million human life. Only a few years promotion when he went into Par-

It is the latter course that trality treaty by any one a matter deaths annually are recorded before that date the Lord Pro-liament nine years ago.

has finally been chosen. After of concern to every other nation. from malaria alone besides the tector himself, the Mussolini of Dour and outspoken, he is per-seven months of deliberations Border Somewhat 'Assured hosts that fall victim to that Puritan England, had escaped haps the most powerful member by a mixed commission of army So there are advantages. The other potent weapon of the assassination only to fall a vic-of the present Australian Govern-Jofficers and members of Parlia north-eastern frontier of France, mosquito-yellow fever. Gnatsim to the bloodthirsty Anophe- ment after the Prime Minister,ment the decision has been which has always been most ex- have annoyed men for more line, possibly bred in his native Mr. Lyons. It was his lack of the made that it is wiser to keep posed and most difficult to defend centuries than history is able Fens. Perhaps one day when Parliamentary graces which caus-war away than, as the King because of its large industrial, to record and have come to be the world is grown up and the ed Mr. R. G. Menzies, and not him, expressed it. "to prepare for a population, will be more or less regarded as the type of petty mations are able to put by their to be chosen Deputy Leader of the war that would be more or less assured, much more so perhaps irritation. Serious danger from mutual rivalries and animosities United Australia party less than victorious as the result of a than it was by the Neutrality Act, any of their kind was never a more altruistic league of na- a year ago.

(Continued on Page 7) suspected until Sir Patrick tions will declare war against Manson offered the suggestion mosquitoes and effect their to Sir Ronald Ross that led to total extinction.

the latter's discovery, at the But that is far ahead. Much end of the nineteenth century, unco-ordinated work by Gov- that a mosquito-bite might give ernments and local authorities rise to malaria fever. Malaria, has rid special areas, in some in fact the old source of "ague," cases of vast extent, both of was no longer to be regarded as the Anopheline mosquito that an effect of the bad airs, that bears malaria and the Culicine ļis mal aria, arising from stag-that bears yellow fever. In nant waters, but was definitely South Africa there are still bad known to be due to the bite of breeding places in the re- a insects that bred in those moter districts where malaria waters. Though every school-flourishes, whilst the more boy now knows something of harmless mosquito uninfected the life history of the mosquito by malaria swarms even in the and its connection with malaria heart of the towns and dis- fever, only heroically patient turbs the sleep of millions of research and good microscopic citizens., To the orthodox technique were able to explode methods of attacking the larvae the myth that the disease was in their breeding places have borne by the air.

been added of late suggestions That the mighty civilisations for fighting the adult insect by of Greece and Rome collapsed the use of machines designed under the attacks of maláris-to attract and destroy great carrying mosquitoes is a thesis numbers. The employment of that deserves consideration. a beam of light which lures The known changes in the them into a specially created climate of Mediterranean re-vortex sucking them in to de- {gions in the four or five cen-struction is reported to have turies about the Christian-era met with some success. In supplied the conditions that parts of the United States the gave the impetus to the rapid WPA, one of the organisa

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