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BRITAIN'S BOLD PROPOSALS

NOTES OF THE DAY WHY DO THEY COMMIT The Very Idea!

PAPER DOLLAR :

The weird effort to depross the value of the American dollar has culminated in announced revalua- tion at 59.08 por cent. It is purely a paper figure. It is not a return to a gold basla. There is no inten. tion of melting down gold engles and lasuing new coins of lesser gold content. The President re serves the right to vary the Agure If and when he thinks fit between

COMPTON

MURDER?

MACKENZIE_DISCUSSES AN SIN AUTHOR'S THEORIES

BILLS MORE BILLS By the Hon. Edward Kelly, C.M.G. INCE we took on going to Legislative Council meet- ings for our afternoon siesta THERE is little doubt that of future on the squalid originality, we have been surprised at the many myriads of topica of his killing. He was an ego-the lack of initiative shown available for human conversation maniac brought to the scaffold by by right honourable official few, if any, can compete, with the his own detestable conceft.

members in the framing the limits of 60 and 60 per cent. tople of murder, and that of the

Landru is another of Bollthe's of Ordinances. As one who The result, therefore, is not likely many myriads of bad books writ-

He contrasts the popu- has done more framing than to be notably more fruitful than ten, no theme has been so hitherto, unless tho sporulator munerative to inept exponents as tion with the apparent popular in-

relar excitement over his condemma-most other people in Hong- for whom the exchange market the theme of murder. has been converted into a Tom

war casca.

difference to the thought of the Kong, we'd like to give the Tiddler's ground-flnds it to his Yet it would be extremely rash inillions sacrificed in the war. local government the bene- advantage to assist the Presiden- to explain that easy popularity by But Lagdru, like Smith, offered to fit of our experience. sces beneficial returns to himself. to murder, from the Indulgence in a ghastly comic relief. You may and the seat of our pants and tial programme, meaning that hoa secret propensity in Everyman the strained nerves of that period Years have rolled on since the day we were taken by the collar which he is only doterred by a find Shakespeare Indulging the flung out of the House of Com- groundlings in much the same way mons. That was the day when, as doyen of the Press Gallery we begged leave to introduco a Bill providing for free liquor for the Boys,

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nationalism.

WAR DEBTS

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dread of retribution.

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The Attorney General refused to accept our amendment, the Sergeant at Arms refused to hear our appeals for mercy and later the Boss re- it was too bad. fused to listen to our explanations.

Editor's Note: Hansard - will probably figure on the list of banned books after that speech.

I doubt if one person in a thou- with his grave-digger in Hamley One of the President's justifica-Rand who reads what I have just and his porter in Macbeth. tions is the need for protection of written has over seriously con-

TWO MONSTERS. the commerce against adverse templated the murder of another erect of depreciated foreign, cur-

The account of Fritz Haarmann rencies! Competitive currency de-person, in the bitterest moments of preciation is a ready answer to Jealousy, anger, or envy.

is the least hackneyed of these I doubt that and despite assurances from If he has so much as experienced studies in murder, for. in 1924 the many quarters there is a real oven

a momentary darkening of horrors with which this case was possibility of such a development. his mind by the notion of murder loaded were still unfamiliar on the Ur, aitornatively, the abandon-

printed page. a dim evening sky a 19 across mont of the gold standard by

We 'mank very low and came to Franco, which would amount to belated bird will darkly swoop.

Haarmann and another monster Hongkong. Now, when we are very much the same thing as far And as for debating with himself in Germany called Denko would we will introduce a few measures elected to the Legislativo Council, as the United States is concerned. the material advantages of whole- probably not have sold the bodies we have had in mind for some Mr. Morgenthau has hinted at an sale murder, I should doubt if one of their victims as butcher's meat tits. We can visualise the soone agreement with Britain, but it is dificult to see how this is to be mind in such a direction.

person In a million turned his except in such a condition of as we clse from the red. · plush chairs, A hush will fall over the economic misery as prevailed in House with a resounding crash. secured. Britain would certainly not consent to stabilisation at a

Germany during the years im- Reporters will pick up their pencils, ratio higher than five to one and

mediately after the war. this would depreciate sterling too

At the Mr. North will glance at the clock Yet in Murder for Profit (Cape, same time in the case of Haarmann to note the time we commence our heavily in terms of French francs. 35. 6d.), which is a reprint in that the prime motive for his whole-epoch making speech and His Ex- The monetary situation, in fact, admirable Traveller's Library of sale slaughter, in Hanover had silence. If we should be so absent- cellency, the Governor will call for could scarcely. be unhappier. Every move latterly is of a nature book by the late William Bolitho, nothing to do with murder for pro- minded as to call for a drink we calculated to perpetunte the which had a considerable vogue fit, nothing to do Indeed with any hope the House will forgive us, nuisance of extreme economic when it was first published, there thing excopt a degeneracy common We can imagine the sensation scems an almost continuous su "socially the most advanced State reported impartially and fully bo- In what Bolitho ventures to call our speech will cause. It will be gestion that but for a few happy in our civilisation." accidents of circumstance any of typical piece of sentimental in proofs. No evil-minded editor is Here is a cause we shall read all our own Britain's latest disarmament

hie readers might have taken up

tellectualism. murder as a career.

going to put anything over us. proposals are noteworthy be-

Trust Senator Borah not to

The whole style of the report will be "In the horrible life-cycle of a snappily written, with Hansard cause they evince a keen désire

There is, furthermore, a forget about

con Haarmann, accomplished from larva | taken as the guide. debts. The tinuous and, as it turns out even to death's-head in the very veins of to get this problem settled once Middle West mentality will not in the examples he has chosen, the body-politic, it is a tour-de-force and for all, and because they are permit it. The worthy leader of completely unwarrantable sugges so ligthly to decide where action based on a recognition of the the so-called Independent group tion that prevalence of mass-mur- begins and is decapitated, where in- hard facts of the situation. I now wants a grand rake-over of der for profit is determined by the fluence ends and is excused.

State Department documents on existence or non-existence of a They represent a positive and the subject in the half-fear half-state of war. I do not believe it. "The unnatural marriage of his unambiguous contribution to bellef that great betrayal will be

parents, the corruption of a town, The mass-murderer is a recur- which he did not invent, the asyluni the problem, down to the last de-proved to have condoned debt rent phenomenon liable to man that allowed a homicide to escape,

revealed, that America will be tail. The result is that the issue default before it occurred. The fest himself in any society at any the science and the revenge that is now removed from the aphere grand assumption would seem to period. Take Smith, for instance, would not send him back again, the of purely academic argument to be no nation would have dared Only the third of his brides was army that tought him the theory of the plane of sheer reality. out a quiet hint that no fuss would

default to the United States with drowned in a war-time bath.

manslaughter, the prison that gave The divergencies from the pro-be created. The world's inability

him bad dreams, the enthronement of his like over the economic system visions of the previous British to find a solution of this great Much was made at the time, and in consequence of the war, the police Draft Convention

problem is explained by auch an much is made in Bolitho's book, that gave him licenco and power; most outlook. Senator Borah cannot of the irony of the Law in spend for none of these things is Haar there was no question of Ger- He would doubtless be vigorous in summer of 1915 in deciding biguous arithmetic of Law. many being permitted to re-arm Amercia's own trade barriers have out ono decent quality, was-to-be what remains of Haarmann P

repudiation of any suggestion that whether a brute like Smith, with- "Take them from the crime, and in-any-direction-equality to be been a primary factor in Europe's hanged for three murders, when attained eventually by other failure to meet its obligatons. thousands of decent human beings However, if only for the die- Powers disarming-the matter While so many people in the all over Europe were being sent to agreement it induces, "Murder for Bill was refused, but the momber has now been approached from a literate, no agreed settlement is earth did Bolitho expect the Law for those who are not too squea-subdued. Ho continued:

United States are so economically a violent death, But what on Proat" makes stimulating reading for East Mongkok was not to be fresh angle, gradual disarma- likely.

to do?: ment by the other Powers being

Ladies and Gentlemen, I shall envisaged alongside partial re

To those of us who were out at It is a pity that no poisoning was introduce this Bill whether I have armament by Germany. This JAPAN'S CHALLENGE

Gallipoli at the time that nine included. Such a case as Seddon your permission or not. Back- process is to continue until pari-

days' trial afforded good reading, would not have allowed Bolitho biters and calumniatore have dared ty is attained. The advantage

We were far from the dust and much opportunity for fine writing; to Insinuate that. because wo The Japanese mandated islands flies for a while of this method is that it should seem destined to furnish a good deal theatrical performance away in judgment, and reminded him that 1st 1931 sinister intent lay behind and enjoying af but it would have steadied his arrived in the Colony on January hasten the realisation of the of trouble before the question of England. To moralise about the life insurance has inspired many the mention of a specific date from. ultimate end, and at the same told the House of Feers in Tokyo as absurd as to moralise about a like of one's father, and that the become effective. I deny the im their future is decided. Mr. Hirotu business would have seemed to us more murders than an early dis- which this moratorium should time remove much of the ground yesterday that Japan has no inten- Punch and Judy show. Smith's murderer class will show a much plication. To think that a lineal for German objection to an in- tion of giving them up when her notoriety as a murderer depended higher percentage of insurance descendant of the greatest known feriority status. The whole con-withdrawal from the League of at the time and will depend in the agents than of soldiers. cept of the scheme rests on the Nations takes effect, and that logical argument that

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arms appears to bo final. It is im- permitted to one State cannot be possible to escape two other im- indefinitely denied to another. It portant facta, however. While is true that Germany is not offer-Japan is in possession she has no ed all that she has demanded, title in the islanda other thinn but she surely cannot but realise that derived through the Lengue that the British proposals meet states is dednitely interested in of Nations. Further, the United her more than halfway, at the islands which may block her com- same time involving well-defined munications with the Philippines, obligations on the part of other and has never surrendered her nations. Germany would doubt- right to a voice in any discussion less have preferred more latitude concerning the administration of in regard to the raising of an the ex-German colonies, wherever Air Force, but if her full wishes they may be situate. Steps here are not conceded at this stage, will have to be very carefully the outstanding fact is that the

chosen. scheme does make provision for eventual equality under this SOCIALISM IN AMERICA. made, within the first two years. to secure the abolition of naval

Mr. Wallace's warning to the and military aircraft, but if this illustrative of the change that has American farmers le typically should prove fruitless, there will come bo a graduated scaling-down on Among the host of artificial over the United States. the part of the other Powers, measures for stimulating pros- accompanied by the creation of n pority in the United States is one German Air Force of such a size providing for restriction in the as will result in ovontual equali production of the daily needs of ty. From whatever angle the men in order that the cost to them proposals

may be raised. It sounds absurd viewed, are

they and fundamentally it must be stand forth

he n bold and absurd-oven in un striking attempt to reconcile economic planning. But there it French and German viewpoints is and there is hardly a doubt that and to remove causes of possible the American will put up with it. friction in the future. France If the farmer la not prepared to may not care for the scheme cooperate, a form of compulsion and may possibly raiso some almost imagine the United States will be employed. One might objections, but, if success is to to be on the verge of a Socialist be attained, alie, in common with dictatorship. A remarkable re other nations, will have to make volution has come barely recog: some definite contribution.

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Author's Note: Your outlook

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to know you. see in the Telegraph:

Anyway, this is what you may

Moratorium on Bar Chits Urged By Hon, Ed. Kelly,

Uproar in Legislative, Counell Greets New Measure,

In the Legislative Council this afternoon, the member for East Mongkok (Hon. Mr. Kelly) moved that permission be granted for "An-Ordinance declaring a Mora him to introduce a Bill intituled

torium on all Bar Chits Signed after January 1st 1931.".

Permission to introduce the

expert on gold transfers should fall so low as to attempt to avoid his just obligations. We are not doing this for ourselves. This Government has made a profit of $10,000,000 on the year's robberies

.cr. ..transactions, and t venture to suggest that portion of this surplus should be allocated for the relief of long-sufforing drinkers in this Colony. (Uproar and loud cheers from the back benches).

The Ifon. Pete Watkins: I beg to second that.

The Hon. Mr. Kelly: You'll accond nothing, idiot. This isn't a duel or a stup watch. As I was saying, gentlemen.***

His Excellency: The honourable member has exceeded the time limit allowed him. He must resume his sent.

Voices; Go On Go on!: Official Members: Sit Down! Sit. Down!

The Hon. Mr. Kelly

The Speaker: Such remarks are unparliamentary. An apology is. due to the House.

The Hon. Mr. Kelly: Oppostion members have not the intelligence. of a mangy cat.

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The Speaker: Withdraw With draw!

The Hon. Mr. Kelly: All right, I'll withdraw. Hon, members havo the intelligence of a mangy cat.

(Uproar) N

When Mr. Kelly's motion was put to the House it was carried.

The Government has resigned. Lator. Mr. Kelly has formed a new Cabinet,

Still Intor.

Mr. Kelly, as usual has fallen,

Vive la Francel·