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A Dream of Paradiso (Gray & Littloton). Walter Glynne Old Rustic Bridge by the Mill (Skelly)

Walter Glynne Essic Ackland Whisper and I shall hear (Piccolomini) Essic Acklandf B-8093, I'll be Faithful (Washington & Wrubel)

Derickson and. Brown By a Waterfall (Film-"Footlight Parado")

Derickson and Brown Turn back the Clock (Parish & Perkins)

Ramona & Her Grand Piano Ah, the Moon is here (Film-"Footlight Parado")

Ramona & Her Grand Piano Frances Day Excuse me (Day & Gibbons) Did you ever see a dream walking?

D-8080 Sing me to sleep (Greene}

B-8090

B-8096

B-8097

B-6442

B-6440

B-6441

(Film-Sitting Pretty") Frances Day Raie Da Costa

The First thing I know-Piano Did you over see a dream walking?

(Film "Sitting Protty!!! Raie Da Costa Heaven only knows-Foxtrot Don Bestor & His Orchestra That's mo without you~~Foxtrot _

Don Bestor & His Orchestra

On a Steamer coming over-Foxtrot

Ray Noble's Orchestra You ought to see Sally on Sunday-F. T.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY THE PERILS OF FASCISM— The Very Idea!

BUDGET HINTS

Without giving away any secrets, Mr. Neville Chamberlain has plain- ly Indicated the trend of his new Budget. There are to be no drama- tles and no bids for popularity. The Imperialist section of the Tory Party, kept in check so long by Anancial stringency, are to be pro- vided with a few plums in the form of increased, votes for the fighting services. If there is any thing left ever after they have had their pick, there may be a chance 'for the taxpayer.

NO IMAGINATION

The prospect is not inspiring. It conforma to the stodgy un- imaginative methods typical of the present Government since their Arst grand abandonment of the gold standard. Financial stability has been achieved, the trade cycle has assumed an upward trend, now it is the turn of the starved" Ser- vices. And that is all there in to it. The opportunity to stimulato trade recovery by a reduction in the Income tax is to be sacrificed to Militarism. Starved workers must wait upon "starved" defences, trade would be fewer were there any sign recovery upon Security. Grumbles of imagination in this particular Mr. Chamberlain's sphere, but acorn of the aeroplana compared with a cruiser sinks hopes in that direction. Shipping is to be pro- tected in the Seven Seas even if it is sunk by aerial bombardment on arrival in the Channel. There is going to be, n strenuous fight around the Chancellor's next Bud- get before it passes through the Commons

IF YOUTH BUT KNEW

By ROBERT BERNAYS, M.P.

UNHAPPY VALLEY.

By Eddie "Horsefeathers" Kelly

JUST about this time of the year everyone's thoughts turn to the races.

In fact, every day this week will be race daze.

HERE is a new cry for a dic- there were ten million young mon intorship in Great Britain; less in the world to be disciplined. wish that those who sponsor it had

A POLICY FOR BRITAIN. seen what I have seen in countries

"Work, not the dole," is the cry which already posscas a dictator- ship the extinction of freedom of of the. British Fasciste. So It is

You might think, that we speech, the deprivation of the every party. But what steps right of public meeting, imprison would the Fascists take to provide know very little about horse- ment without trial, and the mal-employment? I know some of the racing. Nevertheless we treatment of opponents with com-methods elsewhere. Hitler has plete impunity,

In 1992 we backed a horse. for Efty cents each way with

three runners, and it won at one on. We im- three to

from.

wns

the

obtained half a million jobs to are one, of the very few At least in Germany and Italy distribute among his followers by people in Hongkong who it had some excuse. Italy had wholesale dismissal of Jews and suffered from a succession of weak the sons and grandsons of Jews have had a really successful Governments. In Germany the He has conscripted a civilian army career on the turf. Parliamentary system had been and paid them a conscript wage, brought into ridicule by the fact and then boasted of the decline in that, in spite of repeated elections, the unemployment figures. no party could obtain a working

"The end of flabbiness" The majority.

Where is the justification for strong hand in India" shrick the headlines of the Fascist Press. I the overthrow of Parliament here? wonder if the average Fascist has mediately invested our win- There may be room for amendment any conception of what an attempt nings and retired. In the methods of Parliamentary

Races in Hongkong are held at would mean. Between Bombay Happy Valley, just across from procedure, but there is nothing to hold India against her will wrong with the system. Under it and the perilous North-West the cemetery. This is the place Great Britain has come through Frontier, where the bulk of our where all the "doad "ung" come

thu with greater speed and greater worst economic blizzard the world thousand miles of communication success than any other country the army ure stationed to meet

menaco of invasion, there are three

The first race was held in has ever had to face.

to be protected. It is safe to leave Hongkong in 1845, and a lot of The Fascists affirm that, the those lines now almost unguarded money

on placed

in in Parliamentary system has delayed action. Where is the evidence? cause the great majority of the favourite, which camo Opponents of the National Govern Indian population acquiesce in the 1847 and was promptly dis- present system. They believe that ment might argue that it has acted real self-government is in their qualified for being over age. wrongly, but they cannot contend

Happy Valley is about 1 miles grasp. that it has not acted. In the short

Destroy that belief; bankrupt from the city going out and about space of two years there has been that good-will; rely on the naked & miles coming back, if you have to

fiscal revolution.

walk after the last race, a complete

Com- change-over from Free Trade to power of foree-and the

Sokliers and sallors take a lot of Protection. The national finances mander-in-Chief could no longer

in-be responsible for the defence of interest in racing in Hongkong and been

from rescued

reinforce-many naval officers own horses. solvency, a slum clearance scheme India without heavy has been launched, the balance ofments and crushing new taxation. When they win it is, of course, n

In addition we should have to ense of the race to the fleet. · agriculture and industry in the employ those methods of barbar- Other people who take interest in national life is being radically sm that are inevitably under a racing in Hongkong are His Ex- altered. Not once has the execu

military dictatorship.

cellency the Governor, members of tive asked for emergency powers

I can well understand the at-the Legistative Council which the Legislature has not

tractions of Fascism to a certain parl-mutuel. granted. How could' a dictator-

by some type of youth-the appeal of the Judging amart uniform, the semi-milltary dividends, the part-mutuel takes THE COST OF HITLER. discipline, the thrill of adventure, the largest interest of all-about the sense of comradeship, the 50 per cent., we would say. We What dictatorship has in fact devotion to a cause outside mere have never discovered why it is done as much as our own much self-interest. Many of these are called a mutuel, unless it's because squeeze whereby men employed abused Parliamentary system? On wholesome instincts. Outlet can we give and it takes.

the parade grounds of Germany be found for them in a thousand

Strange things have happened surrender part of their pay: in they celebrate every Sunday the ways in the various organisations during race week in Hongkong. re-birth of a nation. What they of political, social, and indeed, if Five years ago Robert MacWhirter others they have given jobs precise have not yet produced is a plan to militarism hus its attractions, the dreamt that a horse named Locki ly as favours to friends and supre-start its industries. They have defence of the State.

Ness Monster would win, To portera at iudicrously high rates of pay. Part of the scandal is due to local political conditions, and part may be due to the federal ad- ministration's failure to proceed

OMINOUS REPORTS

There is something rather omin- ous about the reports of graft and double-dealing in the operations in the United States of the Civil Works Administration. They have been widespread enough to cause Department of Justice officials to

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have

MORL-Hannosuke Mori, manager

of the Yokohama Specie Bank, investigate, usd the story they tell ship have helped in any way? Hongkong, from pneumonia, at is not exactly a pretty one. Publle the Majima Hospital, on Satur- officials in some localities have put day, February 24.

theinselves on the CWA payrolls; in others they have connived at a

the

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1934.

THE BANK AND SILVER

under the CWA schemes had to

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GRAVE DOUBTS

gas

of

and the

the

In work of that kind they can everywody's surprise it didn't, there suppressed the Reichstag, but they have not achieved recovery.

be given free rein with advantage being no horse of that name in the The only wheels of industry that

to the community. In Fascism raco. Chancellor Hitler has set going they can only be pursued to Its It is also a strange coincidence are the armament factories. Could dishonour.

that in Hongkong, no horse has yet sharply enough against the spoils

won the Derby, the Cup, the - WHAT DO THEY MEANS? system, There still are too many anything be worse than the situa

Griffen's Plate, the Attaboy Shield, men who see in government jobs tion that the bullying and bluster-

What do the Fascists moan the Trevessa Trophy and the who a few years ago gave a practi Very definite dislike of the only a new opportunity to rewarding of Berlin has created 7 Denmark,

cal lesson in disarmament by dis-when they talk of discipline? Cricket Interport in the same year. Probably this is because Hong- (Film "Aunt Sally") Ray Noble's Orchestra efforts being made to raise the deserving, party. workera..

banding half her army, is fitting out They do not stop short at dis-

masks, viplining themselves; they are kong horses are usually so badly with her citizens Ray Noble's Orchestra price of silver was expressed in Close your eyes-Foxtrot

dis out to discipline their neighbours. educated. It will probably surprise the Chairman's speech at the au-

Belgium is rebuilding her Did you evor-soc-a-droam_walking ?-E. T.

But, whatever the cause, the net mantled "forts Switzerland, the The whole community is to be most of our readers to hear that (Film "Sitting Pretty") Ray Noble's Orchestra nual meeting of the Hongkong

pugnacious country in placed in a strait-waistcoat of Trentbridge, last year's Derby and Shanghai Banking Corpora- effect is to raise grave doubts about least

in-their own construction.

winner, can neither read nor write. tion. It is, indeed, clear that the working-out of the vast pro-Europe, is incurring heavy

They affirm the need of what they

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the Bank looks with disfavour on grammes now being put into effect creased liabilities in her armament currency experiments of any at Washington. No-one yet knows expenditure; Austria has been call the Corporate State. It is by $4.40, the face Club is faced with the serious problem of stopping this year. The gate crashers S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

kind, u circumstance which pos- how far some of these programmes brought to the verge of civil war the methods of the class war that

for the gate sibly explains the rather sur are going to go or how long they are by the activities of the Nazis.they pursue it. They divide the prising disposition adversely to going to last. Many people are Great Britain herself may be asked country into those who believe in favourite trick is

of in the estimates this spring to their policy and those who do not crasher to announce himself as the convinced that some, at least, pre-judge the Roosevelt mono- the Roosevelt projects are pro- undertake fresh burdens in her air-and woe betide those who are Aga Khan, His Ex. the Governor, Thomas or Sir Edward Kelly tary policy hefore it has had a foundly unwise and ought to and expenditure. Everywhere there on the wrong side of the gulf,

I saw the other day in the King's Southorn. But are now fears and suspicions and fair chance of justifying itself. will eventually be abandoned.

Road, Chelsea, a lorry load of

Owing to the present financial The view was expressed that however opinion may run in those hatreds.

one thing is obvious: "Discipline," prate the Fascists, Fascists. They were in uniform governmental action aimed at respects,

the and the lorry was equipped as if situation, we have regretfully de- bringing about an artificial risc Since the country is more or less "that is what the youth of

world needs." I am just old by the Red Cross Avith stretchers cided that we will not visit Happy in silver prices is likely to do committed to a trial of a vast ex more harm than good to China. tension of activity by the govern- enough to remember the days and all the paraphernalia of first- Valley racecourse this year. If,

ment, that trial ought to be as

before the catastrophe of 1914. aid appliances. They were setting however, the part-mutuel is pre- That, however, is a point on busincas-like and straightforward

That is what the same kind of men off for a meeting in the East End. pared to lay the odds to empty beer Why the uniforms and why the bottles, our shirt, trousers, buttons and sow on, we might reconsider which there is room for consider- as is humanly possible. If it fails, were saying then. "National ser able divergence of viewpoint. it ought to fall because of its own vice uniforms obedience" ambulance? The answer is simple, our decision. True, China's export trade would inherent contradictions and not be those were the remedies that were They concelve, themselves be adversely affected by any cause of political ineptitude.. being advocated than as a solution army and the platform marked rise in the price of the white metal, but there are other | WEAK LINK IN CHAIN factors which suggest that what

What the Americans are getting is lost in one direction might be made up in another. First now is a discomforting hint that their political machinery is not and foremost, a rise in the robust enough to carry the load. value of allver would tremendif ugly graft, favouritiam, self- ously lighten the burden of seeking and plain, everyday in- China's loan obligations. It officiency cannot be kept out of the would also enhance her pur- operation of these projects, they chasing power in respect of com-have small chance of succeeding. modities which she has to No chain is any stronger than its import. Finally, if the view is weakest lak. It is beginning to look as if the ordinary variety of correct that a rise in silver prices politica la the weak link in the would represent a contribution chain upon which the administra towards eventual world trade tion's experiments are pulling. If improvement,, China, like all that link gives way, the experi- other countries, would share in monts are very apt to collapse. the beneficial effects. There will Unless, indeed, the United States be general agreement that, from can root political selfishness, stu pidity, and chleanery out of such the standpoint--of sound econ-activities as the Civil Works Ad- omics, all artificial measures-ministration, President Roosevelt's whether tariffs, quotas or other plans will never be tested upon regulatory methods-are 'bad. their merits. The ideal still is, and must be,' unfettered operation of the laws

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of our national ills. By the time battle ground, and where there is they had finished being applied (Continued on Next Columns.)

it because I'm not wealthy,

Admittedly there would be di culties if this form of barter was universally adopted. Mr. Thomson, the Secretary of the Dairy Farm, for instance, would have to calculate what a 10 per cent. dividend on two hottles of milk, one meat plo and a ham sandwich would come to.

fighting there will be wounds, The Fascists leave on their speak ing campaigns a tra!! of smashed furniture and broken heads. They have introduced into politics a ferocity that la un-British and is horribly dangerous.

A DELIBERATE PLAN.

I believe it to be deliberate. It was the tactics, employed in Ger many. The Nazis stung the Com- munists into retaliation. They created the atmosphere of the class war, and thon were able to come in as the saviours of Society from the civil strife that they themselves had stirred up.

If a young Britisher responds to the meretricious appeals of Fas clam let him at-loast realise what he is doing. He is enlisting in an attack on freedom in this country and overy institution which has made it morally, great and economically powerful, and ha will be compelled to conduct it by methods that are alien to every tradition of tolerance and fair play.

He thinks now that he has dis covered something that has all the. excitement of war without any of Ita dångare. He will find that he has achieved both, and that the conflict will be made more horrible than any upon which he could possibly engage, for It will among his OW?

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