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NOTES OF THE DAY

LOWER TARIFFS.

BRITISH BLACKSHIRTS

By LORD ROTHERMERE

The proposals which President Roosevelt intends to submit to

HEER ignorance is an obstacle, Crimes committed in the cause of Congress for approval; rolating to

that every new political de Socialism are enally condoned by his new economic nolley follow velopment has to face at its start, people who can find excuses for the vary closely the lines already for The hysterical abuse and mis- slaughter of the 2,000,000 victims shadowed. He is making loss than

representation at present being of Russian Bolshevism. Yet the he might have done, premature

poured out on the British Black least violence upon the other olde disclosure of certain revolution-shirt Movement have had their closes their eyes to the national counterpart at each successive value of the phtriotic and dis-

shirts. gress.

to

The Very Idea!

BEING DIFFERENT By Eddle Kelly, Pole Bitter" HE other morning we

Telt inspired.

We wanted to do some-

ary schemes having permittition stage of our constitutional pro- ciplined enthusinam of the Black thing that would be different.

strong a marshalling of foroca, but those that remain are Important enough.. The power of varying tariff rates will be dole- gated to the President, who may, upon the conclusion of reciprocal

trade agreements cut them in half, France had been Wanted by Gång politicians of the share to

In short, trade barriers are to come down to permit the passage Into the United States of the goods of those countries who are willing to accept American goods. In exchange.

CREAT POSSIBILITIES Pricas: H.K.$50.00 to This is a trade plan which may turn out to be far-reaching a tho H.K.$180.00

economic rehabilitation of the world. Every barrier that comes Full particulars on application dopin, encourages attacks upon othors. And freer international exchange of goods is a pro requisite of a complete return to prosperity.

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THE MACHINE "AGE.

The severity of the depresston which has dealt its blows so in- discriminately for four years may, when it has blown itself out, prove to have been a blessing in disguise. Laissez faire in economic matters has

The gone for all time, Machine, which had become the Master, will, na tar as humanly possible, be kept under control. Technocracy na a doctrine may have been somewhat discredited, but the underlying principles which gave it a hearing are accept ed as factors which can be ignored no longer. Men of all countries are now concentrating their atten- Llon upon the problems of sound national economy, involving de- liberate planning and regulation, An early difference of opini-The wave of economic nationalism en has arisen between the Brit

to which the need for organisation has given birth must be purely a passing phase unless the world is prepared to reduce its living standardy all round,

FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1934.

TEXTILE TALK DEADLOCK

the Revolutionary

A hundred years ago Liberalism This patriotism and discipline was Just as black a bogy as "Hit- net a practical example to the' toriam" Is to-day.. Because the young men and women of Britain. advent of Liberal

In who are being defrauded by Old masses which they are entitled in the con- of stupid. but quite sincere people trol and organisation of their coun- in this country believed that the iry's affairs. slightest concession in the way of The two nations in Europe to social legislation would lead on to day beat pleased with their own the guillotine being set up in front Governments and most confident of the Royal

Exchange.

about their future havo both de It is a similar type of timid veloped that spirit under the leader alarmists who all this last week ship of young men for Mussolini have been whimpering that the rapid was under forty when he became growth in numbers of the British Premier of Italy and Hitler reached Blackshirts is preparing the way the Chancellorship of Germany at for a system of rulership by means forty-three. No other Prime Min- of steel whips and concentration isters in the world exercise such camps, ¿

power or are greeted with such Very few of these panic-mongers overwhelming manifestations of have any personal knowledge of the national trust and enthusiasm countries that are already under whenever they appear in public. Blackshirt government. The no- tion that a permanent reign off

During the creation of the British terror exists there has been evolved Empire, young men were at the entirely from their own morbid head of the various activities of Imaginations, fed by sensational propaganda from opponents of the party now in power,

the whole life

So

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Something that would make people whisper about us as we passed them on the street. Something that would make ....... other newspaper reporters take off their hats when they apoke to us.

But it was no use. There's nothing original left nowadays to do.

Not so long ago a man could fly across from Paris to Hong- kong, and be hailed as a boro. Even women do that now.

It's always been the samo, Even when we developed meas les, three other kids got it. We thought we would be original by keeping white rabbits, but wo were outdone by two chape with a snake and a' lizard.

Everything's commonplace Rowa- days. Everybody dodges the shroffs at the end of the month. If you tried to swim the harbour you'd meet Homcone swimming across the other way.

Even the Loch Ness Monster is no longer original. No sooner does he appear in the newspapore than another one la discovered in Hongkong.

сал ma

are

Infants in

play Tschaikowsky. Centenarians.

able to remember 1066 and all that.

Thousands of people shoot. Every hunter tigers every year.

bas discovered anake in his hed. What fisherman hasn't lost the biggest fish he's ever seen?

If you travel to the North or South Poles you find them brist- ling with the flags of almost every nation in the world.

We give it up. There's noth- ing fantastic left to do..

our own people also. Pitt was Prime Minister at twenty-four; Wolfe wen Canada by the capture of Quebec at thirty-two; Cilve if they had visited Italy and laid the foundations of our Indian Germany, as I have done, travelling Empire at the same age; Warren around and observing the national Hostings became Its Governor life in all its aspects, they would General at forty-one; Nelson, who find that the mood of the vast commanded a frigate when only majority of their inhabitants was twenty-one, died famous at Trafal- not cowed submission, but confid-gar before his forty-eighth birth- ent enthusiasm.

day;

and Wellington had com- Can any sensible being believe pleted his long and victorious for a moment that it would be pos- military career at Waterloo when sible for any party leader, however he was forty-six. Yet, nowadays ruthless, to flog 67,000,000 Germans an able and experienced politician into activo co-operation with his like Mr. Duff Cooper is still in the policy? Is it credible that the en-subordinate position of Financial ergotle young Fascists who have Secretary to the War Office at the transformed

and age of forty-four, and is never- spirit of Italy, and are bringing theless regarded by his colleagues triumphantly as an instance of precocious and their country' through the long work-slump, conspicuous success, ish and Japanese delegations

should all the time be working un- As a man of sixty-five myself I which are seeking to reach an

der the dread of a dose of castor-say, quito dispassionately but em- oil?

phatically, that our elderly states- agreement for the restoration

The folly of this anti-Blackshirt men have long outlived their use- of stability in world textile

We made our last effort last campaign when it is not deliber fulness to the country. They have ate falsehood-lies in the fact that survived into a new age with which week, on the coldest day of the markets. The point at issue is

it stresses minor and Infrequent they are entirely out of touch.

year.

We realised that it would the geographical aren to be

bo a waste of time going's put It is encouraging, therefore, to apects of a great movement as if Their whole endeavour is to ex-

made they covered. The Japanese view

clude up the whole.

from political office those to Repulse Bay for n win be find Britain and the United States

Our Socialist Press, for example, young men and women whom the cause the whole of the Colony, is that action should be con- giving a valuable fend. · Britain

is constantly denouncing: what it changed times in which we live trying to do something, différent, lined to the British Home and has been pursuing a studied policy, calls the horrors of the concen- should long ago have brought into would be there.

similar to that now formulated intration camps." To some of its closer association with national We decided to do something Colonial markets. Opposed to Washington, for the last eighteen renders, whose memories carry back affairs. It is of urgent necessity original by not swimming on the this Is the British submission months, the Ministers most con- little more than thirty years, for the younger generation of coldest day of the year. So we that the end in view cannot spicuous in the movement being those words must have an oddly Britons to follow the example set stayed at home. possibly be reached except on

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Mr. familiar sound. A generation ago in Germany and Italy, and assert Walter Ranciman and Mr. Walter the "horrors of the concentration its own claims to governmental a basis which covers the whole Elliot. The British plan falls into eamps" were already a topic of responsibility. world. It is pointed out, with two parts-foreign trade and pro-violent reproach and abuse-only good reason, that if it were a

ductive industry at home. Yuthen Germany was the accuser and I mere matter of dealing with foreign trade, Britain has, nego Britain the accused.

tiated systerns of exchange, the question within the restrict-"|"promoted by preferences or quotas, ed limits suggested by the with nearly a score of countries. With others, where extreme na- Japanese delegation, there would have been no necessity for a conference. In such case,

Britain could herself take what

BRITAIN'S PLAN

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hurried

Ahi so did everyone else.' .

"'STONECUTTER'S MONSTER" The British Blackshirt Move- Not a sound was heard, not funeral

-note ment is the Party of Youth. Its leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, is only. As our course through the jungle we The German public were just na thirty-seven, and a man of proved

Not a thing did we see hut an Indian ready to believe that British courage and outstanding ability,

goat soldiers in South Africa were ill-well fitted by his gifts of person- tionlism has been more extreme, the treating the Boer women in the ality and eloquence to marshal the Government is prepared as shown

concentration camps of that day as vast but neglected energies of his in the little brush with France

our own cred lous Socialists are own generation for an effort of now likely to be terminated

to accept the bloodcurdling stories national reconstruction similar to happily to bargain under the threat, of retaliation. The prin- Nazi brutality which are being that which has imparted such.

circulated at the present time. vigour to Italy and Germany. ciple was plainly stated by Sir

That isolated outrages may have The idea that this new factor in John Simon this week. Britain is occurred in Germany possible, our political life is linked with prepared to take more commodities But in comparison with ether re some foreign organisation has no from any country which is pre-volutions. for smaller in scope the foundation whatsoever. The Brit pared to open its doors to British goods.

TRADE CONTROL

she considered appropriate act- ion to deal with Japanese com- petition. The whole object of getting the British and Japan- ese industrialists together is to seek an agreement covering all markets in which the trade in- tercats of the two nations have been

of clashing. Britain,

If these measures were purely course, is not concerned with Protectioniam, they would not command support. "Above and be- of other fighting the battles

hind it is the principle that British countries, but she does desire industrialiate must improve their the evolving of some modus methods of production and market- operandi whereby stability in

ing Agriculture in all spheres under Mr. Elliot's driving force world markets can be assured.hus been extensively reorganized. This can best be achieved by The Mines Reorganisation Com-

has

colliery warned mapping out the world

into mission

owners that if they do not come specified areas, and reaching a into schemes for large-scale pro- mutually satisfactory agree-duction they will be compelled or ment which would cover each closed down. The iron and steel and all of these by means of warnings; even the cotton trade, industry is heading Government the regulation of exports there- always backward in its excessive to. It is not alone in British individualism, is coming to heet. territory that Japan's commer-The main tradea of the country cial penetration has been felt, will finally emerge as highly

unified groups, working to There is, indeed, hardly a mar nationally planned schedule. If ket which has not been affected the programme is not interrupted by it, and the aim of the by too speedy a return to prosper- British industrialists is to seeure ous times, the Great Depression a working agreement to cover will have been worth enduring. the whole world. There can' obviously be no stability until such

understanding an renched. The London talka have

"Vnndals Among the Trees," the now been adjourned until next week, and it is to be hoped that heading we gave yesterday to the announcement of plans for the in the interim the Japanese do-wholesale destruction of Nathan legation will perceive the wisdom Road's avenue, fairly reflects the of dealing with the problem on attitude of Kowloon residents. If comprehensive lines. Failure of It could truthfully be contended the conference to reach an that trame necessities require such agreement will inevitably mean ruthlessness, the inevitable would that the British Government be accepted, if with regret. As will have to step in and acck by borders on the ridiculous, the things are, and congestion talk

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NATHAN RD, DESECRATION

1k

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. | diplomatic means to secure such official sentoncs is regarded an

action as will regularito the hasty and ill-considered, as medd- position and remove cause for ling for want of something better | complaint. "

to do.

And a rabbit or two that we worried We searched all the day and best

part of the night

In reply to a call of distress

A report had come through that a

man caught sight

or

the "Monster" escaped from

Loch Ness

Then the newspaper: people gat hold.

of the nows

And let off hot foot on the trail

Germans have set the world a ish Blackshirt Movement is one model of moderation. The recent hundred per cent. constitutional I'm thinking they must all have been Socialist revolution in Spain has and national. Persuasion, not vio- already cost much more blood than fence, will be its path to power. flowed during the whole process of Blackshirts use force only in self- the rise to power of the German defence against the attacks of re-

(Continued on Pape 7.

Nazio.

"We have to budget pretty close; ab much of Claude's satory

goes to pay alimony.”

on the booze jele For here is their curious tale It appears that while hunting they

heard a big sabi And proceeded at once to explora And they crept slowly up in n

bloomin' great mob While the sobbing increased more

and more.

Then they stopped in their tracks

for the sight that they saw Made them all d'en the bravest turn

palo

Twas a two headed monster and

clutched in one paw:

Was a page of the South China Mail Then this two headed monster, in

Scotch accent, spoke And explained to them. It was sore. "Can you beat it" said he, "do you

think it's a joko

To bo shown in the press as a boar"! I come to this island in seck of

release

From advertisements dealing with

"Shell"

But now that I'm hero I can stil

got no peace

And I wish you would all go to h-I

Then his eyes filed with tears and

ho turned in a rage

And said "why don't you leave me

alone?

By the news that's contained in this

China Mail page

I've been hurt to the innermost bone

The reporters did all that they could;

to repent

And with fly white hande soothed

his brows Ze

Saying all that was published was

with good intent

At the same time retreating with

howev

And the last, that we heard from the Stonecutters:fronka -

When he fully recovered from shock Was a mérsore to say he was leaving

next wook

Via: Suez. for home in the Loch.

TS. BOWLES."