1937-05-21 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 21, 1937.

THE

Moral A Support

WORLD For Austria

A

GOES BY

WELL known American maga-*

zine

some months ago ex. posed in no uncertain terms i tabri

FRENCH COMMENT ON DISCUSSIONS (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL”).

Paris, To-day. France fully realises the

dif

cated story, só old that it now has fficulties confronting Austria în whiskers, that is written every year or 30 by European correspondents her endeavours to maintain bal- for consumption abroad when news ance between Rome and Berlin is scarce, writes the "China Press

and protect the independence of her country, without, however, endangering commercial rela- tions with her two neighbours.

Although the locale may differ, the story always centers around an aged couple who operate an inn i

The question of a rapprochement some remote European village. The between Vienna, Budapest and Pra- înn-keepers murder 3 prosperous

gue can be best dealt with by the young guest, steal his money and League of Nations and by France then learn to their horror that the and Britain, who, with their sup victim is their son who Has

port of Austrian independence, will been away from home for many ghård against any ↑

pressure which might be exerted on Austria from] Recently the Sin Wan Pao, Shang- without. hai Chinese paper, published the following report.

years.

This opinion was expressed here by semi-official quarters discussing Famine, which has driven many the visit to Paris of the Austrian law-abiding farmers in Honan to Foreign

Minister,

Dr...

Guido

men.

crime, played a leading role in a Schmidt, and other foreign states: double tragedy in the little village of Lamakou. Yichuán Hsień · Dis- trict, near Chengchow.

The moral support Austria enjoys from France and Britain is declar-

Wu Sze-han, a farmer in the ed to be most valuable, as in this village, had gone without food for interest by France and Britain, she a several days. Desperate, he seiz- ed a gun which was used for hunt-independence. Trans-Ocean.

possesses a certain guarantee of her

ing and went to the highway to the west of the village. There he

waylaid a young man. Wu opened fire, killing the youth. He found more than $100 in cash on body, which he later dragged into a pond by the roadside.

SPECIAL AREAS

the MINISTER URGED

WITH CABINET RANK

SOCIALIST REPORT

RECOMMENDATION

As he was celebrating the suc cess of the first robbery he had ever committed in his life the fol- lowing morning at breakfast, his married daughter came for a visit and inquired whether her younger The creation of a Minister of Ca- brother had returned home. She binet rank for the Special Areas, told her father that her younger with power to compel new indus- brother stopped at her home on his tries to establish themselves in return home from distant parts those areas, is a suggestion made but refused to stay overnight as by the Socialist Commission of In- he was anxious to see his parents. quiry into the Special Areas

in The description which was given their regional report on Durham by the daughter upon further ques-and the North-East coast. tions from the father about the Other proposals made by the son tallied exactly with the youth committee include: whom the father had killed the Reconstruction of Newcastle- previous evening. Stricken with Carlisle lower road;

remorse, the father committed sui- Construction of a bridge or tun- cide in another room by shooting nel between North and South himself with the same gun with Shields, and, which he had killed his own son.

* *

Sayings Of The Great

“Blast Tommy Beecham!”

Mr. Buckley Hargreaves.

"I was quite impressed north Hitler."

-Mr. George Lansbury.

"If I made a vulgar picture, would be a bad, lousy vulgar pic

ture.

“Are you a bars?

James Douglas.

The main North Road to by-pass Newcastle;

State financial assistance for the coal export trade.

Retiring pensions, especially in the coal industry to enable older workers to leave industry;

A survey of the mineral and other natural resources........ of the North- East; and

The possibility of protecting vital supplies for defence purposes by turning dised miles (in South- West Durham Lintő underground stores to be immediately examined. The public baistance råte în Durham and the North-East coast, urges

the report,should be re- duced to the national average by a special Exchequer grant,

The Commission, which has still "Hitler's a wonderful specialist. to issue other regional reports and He has memorised the tonnage of its final general report, consists of all the

incipal warships of the Dr. Hugh Dilton, M. P. Mr. George world:

Sago Dallas, and Mrs. B. Ayrton Gould.

Goebbas För

For the present report they were wat assisted by Mr. Jack Lawson and Mr. E Shinwell, former Mines Minister in the Socialist Gover ment, Socialist - M:Ps for Chester le-Street-and Seaham Durham, [respectively.

"Journalists are great guys. They should get lashings of money.”

William Connor.

Thanks, Bill

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