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AUSTRALIA'S

AT CANBERRA

PARLIAMENT

The capital of the Common- wealth of Australia has been called "the child of a loveless union between Melbourne,"

Sydney

There ix at least

Aited and

parent was

coveted role, Bul there

and

waive.

neither would or could Honours might conceivably have

By Sir GILBERT CAMPION

been diviriedens elsewhere Academic. Seclusion

something

uniform

the respect,

him that he is not a player,

the

"FLU ANNIVERSARY.”

Happy occasion, ns long as it's not cold shouldered.

Having

*

Had crypto-Fascists

་

"Petain fine, cating heart out with loneliness, wife says." Make up your mind, Indy.

which are designed to distinguish genuine questions from pro- paganda.

After question. hour, and before of Parliament and the depart- gers' Galleries are actually on the House gets on to the business of ments from the contacts of a the floor of the House, divided for the day, the adjournment attegative many-sided metropolis has been only by a cord from the seats of the House may be moved "to dis- ..... 24354 truth in this attribution: Either a good thing for them, there is members. The clerks are wigged cuss a definite matter of urgent

no doubt that Canberra is a de- and gowner, but, when he is a public Importance." If in that the other agreed) to the lightful pince for the visitor, It Labour nominee, not the Speaker. Speaker's view the test is satis- and crypto-Communists, the Unit- long atory of rival claims which has an atmosphere which is both This is doubtful psychology. An fed, and the support of not fewer ed States is now faced with the

for than five members is forthcom- Limpire's Crestful and stimulating.

he, is ing, the motion takes immediate clippto-economists. It may also help to remind precedence of other business two paid

It may be discussed for and tween Capetown

Pretorin,

Orally answered questions are a hours, but is often. cut short. by but reciprocal veto was pro-

In this rural setting-beauti-

a. couple recent development. My began the closure aflor

Mr. under the Premiersin fled by gardens and avenues of

speeches on each side. This use- bably the wiser course.

Canberra is slowly growing to towering trees, and encircled by

Lyons.

sous, and have been cheburaged ful relaxation of the rigidity, of innturity, with the help of poll-distani blue hills-one still feels by Mr. Chifley-it is said, to keep the pre-arranged programme is

their Advertisements and Business com-ticians, civil servants, diplomats, that it is the business of a great Ministers "or

toes."

The more frequently resorted to than buildings and nation which is being.conducted. procedure differs from that of at Westminster, munications should be addressed handsome public

in that Its The seclusion of Canberra is not the House of Commons to the Company CHINA MAIL not much else, as yet. But

It is moved on an average once future

chronle LTD.

greatness is amply fore- nendemle. But, when the emply all

all questions answered orally are a week, and even such shadowed in a ground-plan which spaces have been filled in, Can asked without

notice at

"The Rabbit any emergencies of underces and

official notice, Questions are Menace" are not disallowed. berra will have lost much of its 20,000. in small

kel freely by

members on The Senate at prosent, consists ares equal, in length, to the dis- Parlament House faces North both sities of the House, and 20 of 30, six from each of the States tance_from_Hampstead to Cap-East with

open vlew

The and the House of Representatives | The Star Strangled: Planners. ham Common and, in width, from

and

Aruerieans are reported to have Inwon

flower-bexis. Both Speaker calls in turn from either of 75. As the House has become Chelsea to St. Paul's.

Chambers are arranged so that alde, and divides the Opposition too small for good representation, now "written off the great Chi- Whether or not the screening the benches near the Chair face share between the Liberals and it has been decided to incrence nese emplo."

each other, while those farther the Country Party.

into n circle facing the Chair. Cml

TOTALITARIAN RIFT

The unce freedom-loving Czechs seem to have gone completely over to the Mos- cow party line in their cur- rent denunciation of a fellow satellite, Yugoslavia. Perhaps it is natural. The prisoner re- sents seeing his neighbour successfully break from his chains. The Kremlin must in- deed be pulling on the pres- sure, and it would not be sur prising tu seo

purge throughout middle Europe of the few semi-Liberals left.

Never has Stalin followed a Nazi original more exactly than in his latest dealings with Yugoslavia. There have been the same hysterical ne- cusations of bad faith, the same insistence that Russian Nationals were being per- secuted, and stern warnings that strong measures would be taken to ensure their pro-

tection.

distributes a population over an attractiveness.

Heat Wave

Means CrimeWave

By ex-Det.-Sup. ROBERT FABIAN, New Scotland Yard

While the British people are on their holidays.

Scotland Yard's "Big Four" keep their lingers crossed. Every summer in the holiday period there are morders to solve, and the man of the Yard are all too used too

to returning from their brief holidays to deal with the new problem.

have been three murders and o

wave.

an

away are curves!

s near the Chair

over ог

or 30 may rist

the

at a time.

No Following-Up

Its numbers,

*

"The shadow of labour trouble doclouded the stock market this works."

An entirely new form of tog dispersal

The Constitution provides that the House shall be approximately

Says the Communist-inclined twice the size of the Senate, and with sil two by two, cachi

A TC- served seat and a share of a desk, The system does not seem 15 also provides for the increase of Ta Kung Pao: "It is an entire misconception that, the Chinese The Labour Party occupy ail

gon of in- the

effective as that of the House of the latter. So the

from. take orders House Communists Commons. A question asking for cretsing the size of the scats on the Speaker's right. On

be com- the Opposition side, the Liberals facts can easily be parried by a

(which

has had to Moscow. China must is necessary.) facing

by the devious pletely independent and fiberajed There is no be approached the | request for notier,

the size of from the oppressive clique.": Government, the Country Party followmg up of answer by supple route of increasing

Now, look. Ta old boy, the in- have the Senate (which might in their segment

mentary question. Furthermore, of the curve below the transverse

it is an impossible task for the been spared); and at the general judicious slipping in of the old gangway. Al present there is Speaker to apply on the spur of election to be held this year the slogans can get you into the most

Senate and in the turrible trouble... roon to spare so that the Diplo- the moment the complicated rules seats in the

30 and 124 matic and Distinguished Stran- borrowed frum Westminster) House will number

respectively.

farther down

Greek Rebels Flee:

Now Watch Out!

By KEITH

BUTLER

Thig is expected to produce- some of the problems. uf Con gestion of business with which

Start what they finish?

"The Federal Bureau of

In-

we are so familiar; and some re-stigation gets things done for de-. form of the procedure of the rucy." House, possibly, the delegation of Es to standing committees, contemplated.

Eases Pressure Besides giving better represen tation, a larger House is more

In a four days' lightning_of-| guerilla high command that the likely to produce larger Govern fensive the Greek Army has Grammos

For three years the guerillas had

attack was the real

Hens fell into unsuspected mine- fields and guerilla defensive net- casuallies before they extricated themselves.

ment majorities, and therefore to case the pressure on the Speaker to vote as party member support of the

In

Tang En-pa, who defended: Shanghai to the last, is now busy defending Amoy to the last, after which there is still Swatow to

be defended to the last.

Red Herrain:2)

A few Barsoy the

D.

Interna

But the bent of tonnle might be appropriato...

In the past few days, there completely smashed the Com-thing. Two Greek Army balta-: Rumours have circulated of number of gun hold-ups. Crime munist guerilias main forti- significant troop movements always spasmodic, but the fled base in the Vitsi moun- works and suffered hundreds of on the border, although most public can be excused for bellev-tains. responsible observers do noting that heat wave equals crime

Again the Papagos "Iron hand" held this mountain triangle North believe that actual warfare is

In fact, It has just been re-

was felt and the commanders of Kastoria and East of Florina, in likely at the moment.

ported that major crime is down the right, angle formed at the

were replaced. But this time the for the first part of the year by Prespa Lakes by the Albanian and

guerillas were so deceived as to 13 per cent, on

For months bring up a brigade of reserves last year, but Yugoslav frontiers.

to the Grammos with the cases of Daisy Wallis, they had prepared elaborate forti- from Albania

without killed in her office in Igfcations of concrete, logs and while leaving the Vitri

further support. While one and was opposed in follow. Holborn, and Mrs. Bridget Mor-earth, covered by deep minefields,

ley, found strangled in her bed inside the labyrinth of lagged a half Greek Army Division car- ried on the feint attack on the at Greenwich, before them, the Yard can take little rest.

Grammos, over Aye Divisions were being deployed for the attack on the "Impregnable" Vitsi mount.in fortress. When the attack was

was wearied

It is obvious that the Com- munist constellation is not wheeling in the ordered orbits intended to

it was

Yugoslavia is not the only star with a tendency to eccen- tricity; there are sufficient troubles in several satellites to make them candidates for disintegration. Albania might' casily follow Tito's lend, and

No detective goes on leave un- less he has a "clean book." If he cannot finish his case before

mountain peaks.

Viisi was reckoned Impregnable, more than any other guerilla strong hoki more than the Gram-

of the Greek Army.

This is why the Greek Army's complete

annihilation

No honey either..

The Leong Dee may be long to returning to: this hive of block-

ade-runners,.

mos, which is the next objective launched on August 10, the Vita is expect where the Speaker pany carrying, goods to. Cora-

the Chair is also bound up with the tightness of party discipline,

the Labour Party. especially in

The Speaker is expected by all parties to vote as a party man in committee. For refusing vote in a critical division Speaker Groom, not a Labour Speaker,į

his constituency and driven out

out of Parliament by

When a British, oficial makes: his own party.

This is, of course, poles apart. protest about a Panamanian from the

the position in the Blouse ship: chartered to, a China, com- of Co

Commons,

and Bets himself munists, there would appear to by their scrupulously. to sever everytle be cogwheels within, cogwheels,

which might look like binding garrison prolonged alert and were caught him to his former party..

then Russia's foothold in the his leave is due, he just does not 7,000 well-dug-in guerillas in the completely by surprise..

go. Public protection is the first consideration.

When detective goes on leave

Adriatic would be lost. both Bulgaria and Hungary it has been necessary to arrest influential Communist lead-ue has to: ers, and. Czechoslovakia is notoriously in serious econo- mnic difficulties.

I. Leave this address and tele-

phone number.

|

that all

vital within the space of four days has astounded both the guerillas and the Greek General Stan-and the British and American military observers.

Air Bombardment

the Australian (male) on is unne

unusually careless of appear ances and impatient of traditional austerities. Anyhow, there is no The guerillas in the Grammos

generally accepted Canberra con- will now inevitably be greatly vention which restricts the neti- disheartened and shocked by the vities of the Speaker when he is rapid crumbling of the Vitsi de out of the Chair. Ho may, if he fences. Within a few days the likes, make way for his deputy, Boor, and Greek Army will have regrouped | fle

step down on to the detective officer were belled. The Greek General to launch an immediate follow-up help to knock up a scare for his)

2. Sign, a declaration

his cases are clear.

3. Hold himself in readiness for One way and another, Mos- cow is faced with the neces-a call in case of emergency.

Every senior

sity of doing something about is entitled to 30 days leave in a Tito, who is habitually re- year. They rarely take it all at ferred to as a "fascist lunatic," once, and at the most are only and a subservient tool of away for two or three weeks at a

'Anglo-American imperial time. ism."

some

Forecasts Belied

All the forecasts of the experts Staff had expected about 4,000 Greck Army casualties in a cam~ palga lasting several weeks.

of

attack on the Grammos.

com-

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side.

the progpeal to export Pemi- stan bagpipes to Scotland. Will we hae sich hings in Dor

ain, dear glem

Pakistan pipes for car belan

SKLY

Second alchted

acceceh, wir wie

Sandy wifi

When he hears aboot what they

plan the dae.

And say, will they pipe

haggis in

the

Tae à pibroch skirled by some

Gunga Dia?

Ab'm fearin' It's fashed the

laird will get

When be lists to the tyéeters

frae far Tibet!

Aye, we'll tak' them doon tae

the glen. the glen,

An' they'll ne'er come

those Punjab men.

back,

For there's nivver a man o'

the Cameron clan Wha can bide by a bagpipe frae

Pakistan...

BY SEA-

BY AIR-

by BUTTERMER & SWIRE

Meanwhile the guerilla

But when he steps up again mand will be racing to refit and

ruling- From the sick-bed in which he transfer to the Grammes the remand is called on for a

nants of the defeated Vital garri- then it is a different story al- had been lying for more than a

The Greek bombardment of together. He is an umpire again, week with high fevers of unknown son. The work of Chief Supt. origin, Commander-in-Chief Gen-, the Grammos will be intensifted uniform or no uniform.

That it may be possible to com- by the 40 American "Hell Diver" can be likened eneral Alexander Papagos studies George Hatherl!] It is ironical that despite to that of a

In the news editor of a

between dive-bombers which have arrived bine strict impartiality reports from the front

on an American aircraft-carrier Chair with open partisanship this deliberate whipping-up newspaper, because it is he who injections of penicillin.

confidential and

full reports of the within the last few days.

out of the Chair need not be dis- The first of war hysteria by the Krem- hands out the

But since the Vitsi, no military puted, blow infleted on the guerillas lin, the masquerade of so- sometimes difficult inquiries to

But

perhaps, human nature were the best medicine he could expert is prepared to place any the Greek called peace rallies continues. his team of experts.

what it is, there is some- Total Greek Army bets on how quickly

being have had. Here, too, the Nazi parallel

casualties in the whole Vitsi com- Army will crack the guerilia re thing also in the British iden that holds. Hitler was able to

paign were only 759 officers and sistance in the Grammos with impartiality, like Justice, should bring poor dupes from the

RCTOSS the not only exist, but should mani- At the moment he is on holi men--of whom 136 were killed. supply and reinforcement bases

South Belgium for The guerillas had lost 989 killed directly at its back countries he intended to at day in

couple of weeks, His chief in and 420 captured and surrender- Albanian frontier. What wiil bo- festly and in all circumstances bei

come white-hot is the tension over seen to exist. tack to Germany and per- tarcate over there are old manu- ed.

Huge quantities guerilla accusations of frontier violations suade them that his inten-scripts, medieval buildings and

the At tions were wholly pacific. architecture.

present war equipment left by them in by both Greeks and Albanians.

As the Greek struggle for free- Now we have individuals like moment he is probably wandar- their fight included 31 feld and

old chateau mountain guns, 26 anti-tank guns, dom comes to its successful close, serious International threats to the "Red" Dean of Canterburying around

on the Cominform mouthing platitudes about exploring the past and trying to 3 anti-aircraft guns, 359 machine-

forget crime.

guns of various types, 44 mortars, peace loom the only threat of war cam-

Supt. Nat Thorp, Chief of 1,500 mines and 50,000 rounds of frontiers of Greece, Albania and

Yugoslavia. ing from the West. He has Scotland Yard's Fraud Squad, artillery ammunition.

The Government forces did not even gratified his. Soviet has had a very hard year. It

most important succeed in task of all-the cutting off and heroes by talking happily includes Inquiries which led up about the "failure" of the re-to the Lynskey Tribunal, and a

dozen more

intricate and diff destruction of the whole concen- In fact, it seems that pocket. cruiting campaign in Britain.cult City fraud cases. Hla hobby tration of 7,000 guerillas, in the The danger is that the is cruising. When be can he some 4,080 guerillas succeeded in Kremlin may attach undue spends all his spare time down on withdrawing some in good order significance to the vapourings the sea in his big motor cruiser with all their weapons into

Supt. Wm. Shapman, Chief of Albania. of totally unrepresentative

Squad,

a hard Yard's famous Flying the

General Papagos Is persons like

Dr. Hewlett is a devoted family man. With his leader. He demands efficleney from every officer Johnson. The facts are that six grandchildren, Mr. Chapman and success

The failure to cut the The Hague, September 11.

The International Air Trans- people all over the British likes to get away to the seaside. and man. Commonwealth,

sit in a deck-chair, and watch the guerillas' retreat route into Al-

Its 70 airline members from 40 elsewhere in the free world, kiddies digging aandcastles. Few bania was mainly the fault of the port Association today adviced

Greek Army 9th Division. him, would recognise

The hold-up in the 9th Div! countries to start work on.pro- regard Stalin's policy as de people liberately provocative and cheery and tubby, as a man who

knows all of London's underworld. slon's advance cost General Papa- blems of using jet aircraft in gos the capture of the whole Vits! Commercial passenger service. belligerent.

garrison of some 7,000 guerillas.

IATA It is sincerely, to be hoped,

William Hildred, In the middle of the operations the however, that they do not al-

Cherrill, finger- Commander of the Division and Director General, in his annual Supt. Fred low their sympathies for victim of aggression to be-print expert, rarely takes a holl- his two deputies were summary report to the Organisation's 30th General CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS LTD,

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