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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 11, 1988.

Throwing A Searchlight On

INTRIGUE IN EUROPE

INCE 1919, it has been clear Warsaw Moves S that no Government can brin

It is true that the extremist group: Germany, led by Ribbentrop

favour of a collective peace system In justice to the Austrian Goy- and Rosenberg, favours a quick without entering into the ideolo- ernment, it ought to be added that coup in Czechoslovakia, but Goer- gical conflict on the side of peace a democratic foreign policy would ing and the Reichswehr oppose and democracy.

arouse violent opposition from the this view on the grounds that Nazis, again inviting the throwing nothing short of a full-dress in- The ideology of the Covenant of of bomba in Vienna. the League of N

vasión of Czechoslovakia by Ger- Nations is insepar-

many would now suffice to bring ably bound up with social justice. The weak policy of Britain and. Bohemia into the Third Reich, That is why Japan, Italy, Germany France in the Mediterranean has Invasion would mean general are also reactionary in their do strengthened the hand of those war, since France and Soviet Rus- mestic policy.

Austrians who maintain that the sia would certainly take up arms Powers would not stand by their in defence of their ally. The close connection between country in such an emergency. home and foreion

policy becomes

The Reichswehr generals are. ever clearer

one travels The same dilemma that con- well aware that Germany is not through Central Europe to-day, fronts Austria also faces Poland. yet ready for war. As General Austria is typical.

Fritsch has said: "Though you The harsh treatment of the can finish a war on ration cards, By joining the democratic camp Polish minority in Danzig since you dare not start a war on them. in Europe, Austria could secure the Nazis have taken it over has.

the same guarantees that have given Poland some idea of what "If we went to war now, a Ger- been given to Czechoslovakia. But to expect in the event of Nazi ag man industrialist confided to a Chancellor Schuschnigg is only too gression. But the recent peasant friend of mine recently, "we well aware that further association risings - and the sympathetic should not enter it in the condi- with France and Czechoslovakia strikes accompanying them have tions of 1914, but in those of 1917

or 1918."

By F. Elwyn Jones

would encourage democratic ten- alarmed the reactionary Polish dencies at home.

His secret police are not lacking in evidence that the working-class movement in Austria was not eli- minated when the Government shells crashed through the work ers' homes in February, 1934.

Schuschnigg knows that though his prisons are filled with de-

·mocrats a vast illegal Trade Union movement flourishes, the Socialist and Communist parties are well organised underground, and even in his own Patriotic Front and is the official Trade Unions there is agitation for a strong democratic

line.

Here are powerful allies who would fight to the death against Nazi aggression. But Schuschnigg, clinging to a reactionary policy at home, will not use them.

FOR SKIN TROUBLES.

For the curative treatment of all

Bores,

Government. Dreading democracy, it talks with Berlin and Rome..

Germany Warned

Significant are the words of Dr. Derer, Czech Minister of Justice.

"We seek no conflict with Ger- many. There is no party in Czecho- slovakia which does not desire

Yugoslavia is in the same posi- tion. Fearful of encouraging de-friendly relations with Germany, mocracy at home, its Government, instead of continuing the demo- cratic policy of the Little Entente, prefers to make its own arrange- ments with its traditional enemy, Italy.

It has been clear to political observers that ever since the rise embryo of Italian Fascism, an Fascist International has existed

THE

in the shape of an increasing M goodwill between reactionaries-in- different countries,

I

Challenge to the Swastika are these emblems of the Austrian Vaterland Front, 350,000 members of whom assemble in Vienna to renew their vow to preserve the independence of Austria,

irrespective of the regime in power..

"But ..we cannot tolerate that Germany should mix in our internal affairs, or that in nego- tiations with Germany Czechoslo vakia should appear as a country subjected to foreign orders in its înternal policy."

WORLD GOES BY

By "ULYSSES"

These coins, which are no

o earthly to them, to the Winter Help, a considerable amount of silver, cop- per and nickel would accumulate.

R. D. DWYER, of Windsor, Was per and silver coins. If they gave

riddled with shrapnel at Pass- chendaele. One piece lodged at the top of his nose and caused him per Did not the overthrow of the

sistent pain. Doctors said that a de- Austrian Democratic Republic in 1934-with the aid of Italian ad-licate operation would be necessary vice, money, and arms-give the to remove it. lie to the Duce's assertion that

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Olga, a lioness belonging to a Lille

en by tigers after a terrible fight.

Fascism was not an article of ex- The other day, Mr. Dwyer sneez-circus has been killed and eat- port? The Rome Protocols be-fed and the piece of shrapnel tween Italy, Austria and Hun-the size of a sixpence dropped into gary were the logical sequence.his mouth-

as

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It was Hitler who first set up the Fascist International going concern by his proclama- tion last year of an international crusade against "Bolshevism.”

...

The animals had previously been living contentedly together, travel- ling about in the same cage. But, during a journey to Tourcoing, the "attacked the killed her.

Frank Bruce, a Negro arrested tigers auddenly

for robbing, promised to leave the country, when the Judge agreed to his discharge.

lioness together,

Spain has shown that the lead- ers of the Fascist International meant business. They invented a new technique of aggression- Bruce, as he turned to go, "say, give stirring up rebellion in a national me a dime, will yah?” or social minority and then sup- plying the rebels with arma, men and money, while negotiating "non-intervention" with the Wes- tern Powers.

"Thanks, your - honour" said SEPTUAGINTUPLETS SIS

Lesson of Madrid

in

forms of skin trouble, cold pimples, rash, eczema, itch, ringworm, The Fascist aggression dry and running sores, there is nothing Spain, however, has only been a to surpass She-ko, the fragrant, an-limited success, Politically, it tiseptle, soothing ointment.

Mr. Jansen, a farmer of Northern Transvaal fired a shot gun into bevy of finches. He found that he had killed 300 birds with a single cartridge, containing 140 pellets.

Pittsfield (Massachussetts).

A grass snake has given birth to 73 young, over a period of 24 hours, thereby establishing what is be- lieved to be a new record.

DUCK HOLDS UP THE TRAFFIC Washington.

Once a day, the traffic in this city held up momentarily by a duck. The duck is Oscar, who belongs to

For skin injuries, too, She-ko is has driven London and Paris Renewed appeals to the German equally beneficial. Cuts,

suratches, closer together. Strategically, the public to hand over every foreign bruises, burns, scalds, quickly heal defence of Madrid has taught the coin in their possession are now be a florist with a shop which faces a under the magic touch of this ointment. aggressors that the determination ing made, in connexion with Gener-large memorial fountain.

Get a box of She-ko to-day, any of an ill-armed people fighting for al Goering's drive for metal. medicine dealer can supply you, and be prepared for emergencies in the home. its freedom, is strong enough toɑ

Oscar leaves the shop once a day, resist a well-equipped military at- One appeal states, Many com-waddles across the road the tack.

rades do not realise that they pos- memorial fountain for his daily sess foreign currency when they swim, and brings all the traffic to a have only a few coins. Some have full stop, amid the screeching of been small change left over from a jour- rakes and the shouting of surprised

ney abroad and a few have old cop-

SHE-KO

Antiseptic.

The results in Central Europe of Healing. Madrid's resistance have

remarkable.

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