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PUN BELIGIOU WHOLESON

OUT OF NINE PEOPLE, ONLY FIVE CAN COME

THE REST MUST DIE !

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WHICH WOULD YOU HAVE CHOSEN?

Which to die in the jungle? Which to escape?

·Heiress or geld-digger? Rida mas or criminal? Detectivo or scantist?..Starix, startling dramat..

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CHESTER MORRIS » LUCILLE DALL-WENDY BARRIE - JOHN CARRADINE - ALLEN JENKINS JOSEPH CALLEJA. C. AUBREY SMITH KENT TAYLOR-PATRIC EKNOWLES - ELISABETH RISDON

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TO-MORROW QUEEN'S

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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 23, 1939

MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

FAMILY ALLOWANCES The principle of family allowances is already adopted for the armed forces, for the police, and for the un- employed. Why should not the whole. nation enjoy the same advantage? The sooner the question of family al- lowances becomes a live issue in dom- estic politics the sooner it will pass from the stage of ideas into the stage of legislation.-"News Chronicle."

FLYING BOTH WAYS

Sir John Reith, chairman of Im-· periał Airways, is in America on holi-- day. Cut short your holiday, Sir John. - The revised version of your com- pany's plight does not improve the You are a skilled situation at all. negotiator and Imperial Airways need all your skill and ability now to get a fleet of R.A.F. bombers to carry the mail. With that job accomplished Bri- tish people will be able to fly along. PREPAREDNESS ON TEST the routes of Empire in Imperial Air- ways planes both ways instead of one. -"Daily Express."

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Great new commitments abroad have been undertaken during the year. Never can our attitude be wholly one of passive defence, but in the new con- ditions of obligations on the Continent the counter-offensive assumes a new importance. Nor can we ignore pos- sible threats to the more distant parts of the Empire. There can be no halt- ing in the process of rearmament, no slackening of the pace of preparation, are made good."Daily.

until gaps Telegraph."

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BLACK-OUT

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The unwelcome co-operation of the weather in completing last night's black-out should not deprive citizens who took part of the satisfaction duty well done. Millions, of people who, often at much expense, shrouded their house lights, or travelled dimly on darkened roads, may feel that the imperfection of aerial observation

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A FRIEND OF FREEDOM

As Dr. Benes claims, the fight for freedom and the development of the free human spirit can never wholly be extinguished. It is by that uplift- ing faith he is sustained in the hour of his country's fallen fortunes; and if he is convinced that the mary vic- tory of freedom will come again, he

can tell himself that his own influence and example have done not a little to keep the conviction alive. Wherever freedom lives, “there's not a breathing of the common wind” that will forget him.-"Daily Express."

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IN HEAVY WEATHER

The Roosevelt Administration is be- ing beaten time and time again in the House of Representatives. Such a series of major defeats inflicted by the elected chamber upon a British Gov- ernment would have caused its resig- nation months ago. Mr. Roosevelt con-- tinues as President because he is an- swerable under the American Con-

made their efforts not worth This is a wrong point of view. Even if unwatched from above, citizens be- came their own critics and learned the thinks in their own armour against stitution not to the House, but direct- light-"Daily Mail."

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THE ENGLISH

GENTLEMAN

The rise of the English Gentleman

in the middle of last century coincides

ly to the people who elected him for a fixed term.-"Daily Herald."

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READY FOR ANYTHING From this mean, twilit half-world of political animosities and baseless.

with the distant beginnings of British allegations the healthy-mined British Imperial deced-

The crisis, ence. the methodical ex- propriations car- ried out by the democratic rulers, the slow but per- ceptible dissolu- tion of the Em- pire are all turn- "gentle- ing the man" into a tired, discouraged in- dividual who is a dead weight on the life of the nation.

OUTLOOK ON LIFE

"The seriousness of life does not imply gloom, pessimilem ör depression. It is not incompa tible with the youthful galety of the people, with rejoicings, wit and laughter. It merely demands that serious things should taken seriously." — Dr. Salazar, Premier of Portugal.

He abandons himself to the flabby and egoistical existence allowed him by his last remaining wealth, goes in for birth control, believes in subsidis- Ing the unemployed, demands higher tariff walls for an industry which no longer knows how to defend itself, and openly envies the young nations whose power is increasing, thanks to their fresh energy.

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The English gentleman is really man who, adopting a conventional out-look on life, finally becomes im- 'passive and obstinate, full of selfish pride, and "somewhat inhuman. "Popolo d'Italia."

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DANZIG

Danzig is a Free State within the Customs frontier of Poland, which

shares control of the railway lines, postal service and port. These are the things that are meant when men speak of Polish rights. That Danzig should remain free as an outlet for the commérce of Poland is vital to the continued existence of Poland as a Great Power-a position that belongs to her by population wealth, Indus- tridl enterprise and her past history. That simple truth has been ignored through the whole campaign in which Herr Forster's speech is a further stage.-"Daily Telegraph."

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citizen, on holiday bent, will

prefer

to turn to the Prime Minister's statement of Bri- tish policy. In words of one

are syllable, we glad to talk, but -fit to fight.

It does not lie in the power of the British Gov- ernment alone to dictate the course of events be fore winter · sets

a close, in 1939, to military cam-- paigning; but, given the action or even the absence of action which the Prime:

as the condition Minister predicates of peaceful discussion, it may yet be possible to save Europe from the ca- tastrophe which would otherwise make this month's holiday interregnum, a poor breathing space on the route to civilisation's - ultimate undoing. "Truth."

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TIRED MEMBERS

Mr. Chamberlain is probably right. in thinking that drastic changes at this moment, in a team which is at all events hard-working and harmonious, might actually have retarded the great efforts after security which are so must more impressive to foreign na- tions than any mere gesture. But he can hardly suppose that his present Government is the strongest that the country can produce, or that several members of it would not be all the better for a rest. "The Times."

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ཙཽ༔ཝེ,

THE COMMON PURPOSE

The personal differences, which are to-day the substance of party politics; are in one respect at least unsubstan-- tial. Face to face with a crisis they would disappear in a night. 'It is too early yet to say, where this Session will rank In Parliamentary history, but at least it has witnessed the em- ergence of a common polley to which s both critics and criticised: are irrevo- cably pledged.--"The Times."