1938-05-20 — Page 12

252525257

Use only... "Anchor Brand"

New Zealand's Finest

Butter

The World's Best •

Sole Agents-Lane Crawford Ltd. and from all leading stores & compradores

2525252525252525258

BURNS PHILP LINE

Passenger & Freight Service To

AUSTRALIA

M.V.

52520

"NEPTUNA"

due

20th MAY Afternoon

sailing 23rd MAY at P.M.

For

SAIGON, MADANG, SALAMAUA,

RABAUL, `

SYDNEY AND

MELBOURNE.

Excellent passenger accommodation with a large number of single cabins at no supplement. Built-in Swimming Bath and Spacious Sports Deck.

First Class Fare to Sydney: Single: £47.10.0d. Return: £76

Passenger & Freight Agents:-

GIBB, LIVINGSTON. & CO., LTD.

P. & O. Bldg.

Bringing Up Father

MAGGIE - AS LONG AS WE ARE OUT FER A STROLL- LET'S SONTER THROUGH TH' 7. GOOD OLD

NEIGHBORHOOD?

Telephone 28031

DON'T TALK LIKE AN' IDIOT-WE'LL CUT THROUGH THIS TUNNEL- AND GET OUT ON THE BOULEVARD- WHERE I'LL MEET PEOPLE I KNOW

WELL-IT'S A LITTLE EARLY- TH' LAUNDRIES HAVEN'T CLOSED FOR THE DAY

AS YET

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 20,

UNLIMITED PROMIS

Comprehensive Analysis Of World Situation

Geneva, To-day.

A comprehensive picture of social progress all over the world being subordinated to war prepara- tions, is painted in the Annual Report of Mr. Harold Butler, Director of the International Labour Office, issued yesterday.

The Report declares that with war blazing in the Far East and Spain, and Europe again an arm- èd camp, all thoughts of social progress may well seem more appropriate on some other planet.

What Mr. Butler described last year as a “darken- ing shadow," he now sees as a "threat to blot out the light from the whole earth.”

HAILE SELASSIE DENIES OFFER FROM IL DUCE

London, To-day.

Mr. Butler expresses the opinion that the "boom of the '30's" reach- ed its peak last summer, and deals lin detail with the recession in un- employment and the growing im- portance of the Far East.

Of the Far East he writes: "Any long-range view cannot possibly ig- nore the new thing, which amid pain and travail, is coming to birth in the Orient.

The correctness of reports appear-

UNLIMITED PROMISE the ing in English newspapers to effect that Mussolini is prepared to "After centuries of passivity i place at the disposal of the Negus is being stirred by a modern out- in Abyssinia certain territory with-look with all its incalculable dan- in the Empire formerly ruled by gers and unlimited promise." him, was emphatically denied in a Predicting that Oriental compe- statement made by the Negus yes-tition will continue to expand until terday.

béen sort of balance has struck between the economic levels! In this declaration the Negus of the East and the rest of the points out that he has twice in world, Mr. Butler says that the Geneva already expressed his views view expressed by the older indus- on the Abyssinian question and trial countries that cheap goods

some

from-Asiatic-countries-should-be that he had nothing to add to the declarations. made. there.-Trang-excluded wherever possible, canno! Ocean.

be justified on long-range economic calculation.

INSP.-GENERAL IN AUSTRALIA

London, To-day.

Japanese

Even the so-called menace, he says, has been greatly exaggerated-Reuter.

Lieutenant-General.-Reuter.

During the Great War, he serv- ed in France, Belgium and Meso- potamia. He served as General Staff Officer in India from 1922 to Major-General E. K. Squires, January, 1925, at the War Office Director of Staff Duties, War Office, from 1925 to January, 1928, and at has been appointed Inspector-Gen- the Staff College from December, eral of the Australian Common-1929 to October, 1932-British wealth forces with the rank of Wireless.

GRACIOUS- IT'S DARK

IN HERE--

ALL THE LIGHTS ARE OUT-

I WANT YOU TO CALL UP THE MAYOR AND TELL HIM I INSIST ON FIAVING THESE LIGHTS FIXED-BEFORE I GO TO THE HAIR-DRESSER BWANT YOU TO TAKE ME TO THE RITZ-ASTOR FOR LUNCH THEN WE'LL GO

TO THE MOVIES-

Out surgent Troncoso

THE RE

THI

Powell'

ANY- THING ELSE MAM

B