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London Air-Mail Letter ANOTHER CRISIS

Kingsford Smith and the Australian Air

Route: Will Hitler be President? London's Oldest Magistrate: The

Rothschilds to Economise:

Brisbane's New

Archbishop

(Special Air-Mail Service)

IN CUBA Dr. Cespedes may be Restored

AN

Havana, Oct. 30. NOTHER crisis is threatening in Cuba. The growing labour un- rest of the past months, has cul- minated in a three-day nation wide strike in the transport, light power and water services.

A lock-out has been declared by the all companies owing to the employers refusal of some of the 70 demands made by the "em- ployees.

London, Oct. 10. THE GREAT AIR ROUTE Sir C. Kingsford Smith, the Australian airman, who is on his way back to Australia, came to England chiefly on business connect ed with the Singapore-Australia section of the great air route, for which tenders have been invited by Born only ten years after Queen the Australian Government.

Victoria came to the Throne, he His view is that comparatively i was a schoolboy during the Crimean amall twin-engined machines are War Before the Franco-German readed, and he is opposed to putting War broke out in 1870 he had been very big costly aeroplanes into the called to the Bar And five years) service......

ngo he celebrated his golden, wedd- ing

Meanwhile, the. Government seems unable to control the situa- MR. MEAD'S RECORD

tion. An alarming increase of in- Perhaps it is not altogether sur- testinal malaria, fostered by the prising that once, in a light-hearted slackening off of sanitary mea- moment, Mr. Frederick Mead, the sures, is increasing difficulties. Marylebone magistrate, should have The Cabinet handed in their described himself as the Rip Van Joint resignations to the President, Winkle magistrates" He Professor Grau San Martin, a few occupies a position quite out of the days ago, but the latter has de- ordinary.

cided to hold the matter in abey Fance pending a new attempt at reconciling the warring factions by offering them a seml-Parlia mentary Government..

"Why," he asked me the other day at luncheon, have 2,000 h.p. machines, costing about £30,000, to carry half a hundred weight of mails The Australian Government will be bearing part of the cost, and will have something to say about it,"

WESTMINISTER TO AUSTRALIA

"Australia has come to Westudins- ter to Ende headmaster for one of her leading schools.

The son of a Chelsea solicitor, he has been a metropolitan magistrate for forty-four years, and he must surely be, at the age of 86, the foldest stipendiary magistrate in the world: More than once there have been rumours that he was retiring but they have always proved in- corrent

KOTITS HILD THRIFT

The Baron Louis Rothschild and Baron Alphonse I learn that Mr. A. G. G. C. tion in their house-hold expenditure

Rothschild to make. drastic reduc Pentreath, master of the King's simply means that they are exercis- Scholars at Westminster School, hasing the virtue of economy which accepted the appointment to the their family has always possessed headship of St. Peter's College, Adelaide

He is only 31, and the new appointment will give him the opportunity of extending his Imper- ial knowledge, for, born in the West Indies, Mr. Pentreath has lived in Malta, and, was for two years at Michaelhouse. Diocesan College, Notai."

Mr. Pentreath's intereste are largely classical. But it is testi mony to Mr. Pentreath's blending of the modern outlook with classical study that he should have formed at Westminster the first aeronau- tical society of any English public school.

WHO WILL SUCCEED HINDENBURG ?

The writer gathers that the question of President von Hinden- burg's eventual successor has been engaging the attention of the Nazi leaders.

Madame Amaché) Rothschild, the widow of the founder of the house, never wished to leave came when her husband had only the humble dwelling to which she just enough to live on. To the end of her days she wore a plain black dress and all her own housework.

And it was the late Leopold-de Rothschild who told a young spendthrift that if he must bet there shilling wager as in one of a. thou- was as much enjoyment in a five- sand pounds.

A POWERFUL DYNASTY Legends innumerable have cluster- ed round the international financial dynasty of Rothschild.

Le.

The financial services to Europe have all the quality of high roman- Out of their own resources they were able to assist with loans the States which had been impoverished by the Napoleonic wars,

A POPULAR APPOINTMENT

Chancellor Hitler would be un willing to retire from the headship' The unanimous choice of the Rev.

of the Government and the active leadership of the Nazi organisations to accept this post,

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J: C. H. How, Rector of Liverpool,

to be Archbishop of Brisbane, will

be applauded in many quarters. It

It is considered that the advent brings recognition to a priest who to the Presidency of a Hohenzollern has shunned rather than sought the Prince would be unpopular with a limelight.

...

large section of the Nazis, who are The news, nine years ago, that opposed to any move which might he had gone to Manchester to be a suggest or facilitate an early res-canon-missioner came. 83 toration of the Monarchy.

surprise to those of his friends who Consequently, the most favoured had regarded him as settled for life candidate is Prince Philip of Hesse, as a don at Cambridge. who married. Princesa Mafalda of Few acnior members of the uni- Italy,

and has manifested his versity have enjoyed such popu- sympathy with the Nazi movement. larity with under-graduates,

whom he was known by succeeding generations as Father John. HARROVIAN COINCIDENCES

The Government, however, now seems on the verge of collapse, as the strong Wing, the A.B.C., or- ganisation, is threatening to with- draw its support.

Many are confident that the Cespedes party led by Dr. Cespedes y Ortiz, former President, will shortly be reinstated, possibly with some assistance and protection from America-Reuter.

KWANGTUNG'S THREE YEAR PLAN

District Information Offices Set Up

Canton, October 28. All resolutions passed by the Kwangtung Administrative Con- ference during the last five days will be passed on to the Provincial Government for action,

Delegates who came here for the Conference are now leaving the

city for their districts.

In carrying out various schemes under the three-year plan, the Pacification Headquarters for Sou- thern Kwangtung has ordered each district magistrate to establish an information office, as a means of contact between the county ad- ministration' and the people.

This office is to keep the people informed on the latest activities

of the Government and to secure that concern them. The object is their viewpoint on the projects

tion between the masses and the to maintain a spirit of co-opera-

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

TO-DAY

October 31.) Anniversaries and Holidays.- Hallowmas Eve. great

Miscellaneous. - Rotary Club' Tiffin: aboard S. 8. Pres. Hoover, H.E. the Governor, Fi: William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., pays official visit to Macao. to Autumn Display of Water Colours, Komor and Komor, until 6 p.m., (for ten days),

Lammert's Bale of Household Furniture, 55. The Peak, 10.30

A FRIEND OF ENGLAND

The funeral service for Mr. George Thompson Wilson, held in The names of distinguished | a.m. New York yesterday, was crowded | Harrovians of the past to be hon.: China Emporium: Tea Dance with friends and admirers of theoured in next series of heraldic every day at 430 p.m. Dinner man who rose from being a dish-panels in speech room include those | dances · Tues Thurs. Bats. and washer in the restaurant of the of two famous Admirals Lord Sundays, at 8.30 p.m. Equitable Life Assurance Company Rodney and Sir Edward Codring-

to be vice-president, of that com- ton. pany at a salary of £5,000,

Sports,

Both names are, incidentally, Entries close for Senior and Red-headed and dynamic, Mr. borne by warships now in commis-Junior Chess Championship and Wilson was active in national, and sion-the one a battleship and the for. American Tournament; for civic affairs, and was among the other a flotilla-leader,

B.C.A.A's Eleventh Athletic Meet- three best after-dinner speakers in

ing, 6 p... America. He was a devoted friend of England, and was among the founders of the Pilgrims Society in London and, the famous Bankers Ulub in New York.

WAR-TIME SERVICES

During the world war he was chairman of New York's Reception Committee, and in that capacity welcomed leading soldiers And diplomats of the Allied nations. For his services he received many foreign decorations.

An even more striking coincidence is that of the two generals-Bir Horace Smith-Dorrien and Lord. Horne-whose panels will be put up. at the same time. One was the defender of Mons in 1914, the other recaptured it on the very eve of the Armistice.

FRESH OUTBREAK OF RIOTS IN HAVANA

Havana, October 28. At least 10 Communist workers were killed and a score wounded After leaving the kitchen of the during fierce Aghting at the Amer Equitable restaurant at the age of ican-owned Jorenu sugar mill, at of 16, his advancement was rapid. I'Camaguey-Reuter.

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