BIG ARMS LOAN ATTACK Strong Labour Party Opposition Likely
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London, To-day.
Extremely unfavourable criticism of the Gov- ernment's £400,000,000 armaments loan is made by the Labour "Daily Herald," which calls the project "stupid and even immoral.”
The paper accuses the Government of laying the major portion of the cost of rearmament on the shoulders of the working man because, so it is argued, the loan will have in- flationary consequences, will increase the amount of money in circulation and thus make the rise in prices proceed even faster than at present.
GERMAN AVIATION
Lufthansa Progress Last Year
Berlin, To-day.
"That is the immoral side of the issue," declares the paper.
"The stupidity, however, lies in the fact that England's economic condition at resent apart from that in the distressed areas that of a boom.
is
INEVITABLE COLLAPSE "The economic problem of the The steady development of Ger- moment is to prevent development man commercial aviation is shown continuing along the same line un- in the annual report of Lufthansa til the inevitable collapse arrives for the past year.
That means that we must discon The total distance covered by tinue the policy of inflation.” Lufthansa machines was 14,888,000) The paper goes on to declare that kilometres, or 16.4 per cent. more it would be sounder finance to tax industrial profits, in order to check the ever rising prices and ever in- creasing profits.
than in 1935.
The number of passengers rose in 1936 by 41 per cent to 231,900, while the mail carried increased był 83.9 per cent. to 2,409,000 kilo- grammes.Trans-Ocean.
BRITISH SHIP SUBSIDY
MAY BE ENDED
The motor strike settlement has come to prevent a repetition
of this scene. It shows a National Guardsmen machine gun unit posted near the Fisher Body plant at Flint.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LESSON SERMON
Subject: SOUL
to
in
He,
Mary Baker Eddy: "If we wish follow Christ, Truth, it must be the way of God's appointing. who would reach the source and find the divine remedy for every ill, mast not try to climb the hill of Science by All nature teaches The Subject of the Lesson Sermon in some other read.
God's love to man, but man cannot all churches of Christ, Scientist, to morrow, February 14, will be: "Soul love God supremely and set his whole affections on spiritual things, while The Golden Text will be: "Truly my
trusting it As for soul waiteth upon God: from him loving the material or
more than in the spiritual.
Science cometh my salvation." (Psalms 621) sin and disease, Christian
Among others, the following cita says, in the language of the Master, tions from the Bible will be read: "And Follow me; and let the dead bury it came to pass, that, as they went their dead" Let discord of every in the way, a certain man said unto name and nature be heard no more, him, Lord, I will follow thee whither and let the harmonious and true that soever thou goest. And Jesus said unto sense of Life and being take posses- the Parliamentary Executive Com-him, Foxes have holes, and the birds sion of human consciousness. One mittee of the Labour Party was im of the air have nests, but the Son of marment of divine consciousness,
Life the spiritual understanding of mediately convened and at once de-man hath not where to lay his head
And he said unto another, Follow me ani Love, is a foretaste of eternity. clared its opposition to the Goven But he said, Lord, suffer me first to This exalted view, obtained and ment's policy of financing rearma go and bury my father. Jesus said unto tained when the science, of being is ment by a loan, and refusing to him, Let the dead bury their dead- understood, would bridge over with raise the sums required by new but go thou and preach the kingdom life discerned spiritually the interval
of God
of death, and man would be in the taxation.
The Lesson Sermon will include fu consciousness of his immortality the following passages from the Chris and eternal harmony, where sin. sick- tian Science Textbook, "Science andness and death are unknown." (Pages Health with Key to the Scriptures by 326, 355, 598).
PARTY OPPOSED
The paper also announces *·
"The Labour Party," concludes the paper, "will oppose the Govern-
A warning that the tramp shipping ment's finance policy with all its subsidy, may end after 1937 has been force." given to shipowners by Mr. Walter Runciman. President of the Board o£} Trade.
Trans-Ocean.
WHITE PAPER /
London, To-day.
A White Paper which the Gov-
Writing to Sir Vernon Thorison, President of the Chamber of Shipping erament will issue on February 16 of the United Kingdom, he recalls that showing the progress of the de-- the Government have decided to ask
fence programme in all depart- the House to grant a tramp shipping subsidy for the calender year 1967 an ments, is also likely to contain the same general conditions as those plans for the coming year and in force for the year 1936, but adds: stress the need for the powers the you the Government's view what the Government is seeking in order to subsidy, if granted by Parliament for raise £400,000,000.
“I am at the same time to convey to
1937, shanild not be renewed for a fur- This was announced by the ther period, and that the plans of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Administrative Committee and of in- dividual owners should be laid on the Neville Chamberlain, yesterday.. definite assumption that subsidy to To enable members of the House tramp shipping will cease at the end of Commons to study the Paper, the debate on the preliminary financial
of 1937.
Co-operation Required
"My colleagues appreciate highly the resolution will be postponed anfil work which has been done in securing February 18.-Reuter. co-operation in the industry to make,
the best use of the subsidy, and they
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In his reply Sir Vernon expresses the fering from loss of memory. thanks of the tramp shipping industry
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sion to abandon the idea of a military tattoo in connection with the forthcoming Coronation. There appears to be a growing feeling that Hong Kong is tack- ling its programme in a nig- gardly spirit, in this and other ways, guided more by considera- tions of cost than of making the Hong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 13, 1937. occasion worthy of the" occasion
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SHANGHAI AND- H.K. GOVERNORSHIP
and worthy of Hong Kong's loyal sentiments. The military authorities, apparently, offered to stage the tattoo and to pro- vide free accommodation for all Shanghai thinks we should comers if Government would de- have known better than to fray expenses. It was this pro- question the wisdom of the posal that, after due considera- Committee decided Secretary of State for the Go- tion, the lonies in depriving the Colony against. Past experience, how- of the services of Sir Andrew ever, might have suggested a Caldecott at a critical time in plan for a self-supporting tattoo. Hong Kong's history. Although Ever popular spectacles of this it was clear, says the "North type can surely pay for them- China Daily News," that Hong selves in two or three nights. Kong would feel an acute sense
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of grievance in losing so quickly Interport Lesson
a Governor of the calibre of Sir
Andrew Caldecott, those who The Interport football match endeavoured to impress their afforded a striking object lesson disappointment on the attention in the value of opportunism. At of His Majesty's Government no point did Shanghai compare cannot have had much hope that with the Hong Kong eleven in the considered decision of the the fmer points of the game. The Cabinet would be reversed local forwards were far too Nevertheless the protest may clever for the opposing half- bear fruit in keeping the Co-backs. who, with the exception lonial Office well in touch with of Ward,
d, were completely local sentiment and in emphasis-overrun. In the result, however, ing the undesirability of expos- Shanghai with one-tenth of the ing Administrations to too fre- scoring opportunities, netted quent changes in personnel. four times and Hong Kong re- Without disparaging Hongplied with three goals, all obtain- Kong's needs, it is conceivable ed in the second half after a deficit had been that Sir Andrew's promotion to de Ceylon is specially designed to chalked up. Shanghai's for- came here with a very meet the urgent requirements of wards that Government. The political simple theory, that the principal problems in Ceylon are peculiar object of playing football is to ly delicate. The system of self-score goals, an aim in which the has not worked most delightful artistry and government without considerable creaking, polish are but accessories. It is essential that a Governor of exceptional qualities should be appointed to succeed Sir Reginald Stubbs on his retire ment next September.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
ATTENDED TO: “I was not of-
Hong Kong has the satisfac-fered the Order of Merit because tion of having brought out into the government knew I had already clearer light the ability, conferred it on myself" George
strength and breadth of vision Bernard Shaw,
of its Governor.
ERROR: The experienced thea- In regretting his early de tre manager does not make the mis- parture to another and larger
take of trying to give the public Island, Hong Kong may rest as- sured, that due attention has what it is believed to want."
C. B. Cochran, been paid to its claim for com- pensation
Sir Geoffrey North- cote has had a varied career
HATCHET: "Herr Hitler has de- which has given him sound ex-clared that he wishes to bury the perience. He, like Sir Andrew hatchet Bury it? That is not Caldecott, is taken from a Gov-enough. I fear an exhumation. I say ernorship to which he went bare destroy this ba
ly a year ago. He has the reputa- Herriot
tion of being a vigorous and understanding administrator and
Edward
NATURE: “If you study biology
it is more than probable that Hong Kong's wail over Sir An- and what goes with biology, drew is now being echoed in history and all the love it engenders British Guiana on Sir Geoffry's for birds, flowers, butterflies and account.
the fields, it produces a more Pertinent too is consideration ing mind, a more reflective min of the personality of the present and, I might almost say, a more [{"permanent") head of the Co-verent mind than the study
lonial Office, Sir John Matter, He is the last man in the world
tawson
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