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NOTES OF THE DAY THE POLITICAL

NAZI PROSECUTIONS

PEEP-SHOW

By A. J. CUMMINGS

The Very Idea!

BE

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

By George

Prosecution of police officials in Germany for ill-treating prisonera In concentration camps points once more to the fact that tho

DELIEVE it or not, but, process of stabiliantion is proceed- ing rapidly in Germany Six to

following our silence on re- nine months ago, Herr Hitler was THE Gòverument, which ́experi-, Government, with n compact ceipt of a notice from a local compelled, by force of elreum

ences so

much difficulty in majority, a clear mandate, and a firm pressing for payment we stancea, to overlook certala ex making up its amorphous mind new lease of life.

received the following letter cesnes by too zealous followers, upon any important political issue, The Government, they claim, is copy of which can be seen by Now control. has been definitely is now trying to come to some never likely to have a more favour the incredulous at our office. established, the blind eye would nort of decision about its own able opportunity for an appeal to

"Doar and Honoured Sir. merely discredit the Nazi

future.

the electorate than after a Budget: ministration. The exemplary sun-{ In recent weeks Ministers have surplus, while trade is still ap- tences passed should encourage been discussing among themselves purently on the mend, and the others of similar diaposition to and with the party organisera the employment figures will be show- the necused men to realise the question whether to hang on for a ing n good, seasonal upward move. bully's day is over.

couple of years or to make a new From the Conservative point of appeal to the country within the view the argument has much to next few months. There la, 1 commend it...... understand. a difference of au- Yet I think Mr. Baldwin's desire The Achome for lending Cuba thoritative opinion in this matter. to let sleeping dogs lie will pre- money to buy silver with has gone Mr. Baldwin; who is always for vall, though his complacency and through in the United States. The peace and quietness, wants to hang that of his colleagues has been Reconstruction Finance Corpora- on. Ile knows perfectly well that, more disturbed by the L.C.C. elec tion has already authorised a loan in the absence of some. violent tion results, than by any of U.S.6.000,000 to the Cuban and altogether unlikely upheaval since East Fulham, Import-Export Bank, which will be of public opinion, the Government

SILVER THREADS

event

Now there Is North Hammer- as if to fore. used to finance the purchase of can drift plackily on to its ap-smith, in which, about $8,000,000 worth of silver, pointed end.

'shadow what is to come, Labour

to

Stubbs Road,

of da

Mr. & Mrs. J, TULLY

the

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934.

record

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HOUSING IN BRITAIN

rate a

Parlia-

Owing to a mistake *by our unworthy and careless clerk we had the grievous misfortune of forwarding "to you, Kind and Ealcenied Client, a letter to your embarrasement, We are humint "ed and chugrilled to learn that this foul effusion from the pen of our twice unworthy employee, was, sent in painful error and wë humbly bey to offer our sincero and profound regrets that your peace of mind should for a moment be disturbeil." by cur in Soliciting your kind and welcome patronage and amur- ing you a thousand times of our deep narrow, wo beg to remain over your devoted and humble servants,

Uo No-hue. Caterers and Restauranteurs"

Civity without servility." To this we replied :----

"Dear Allers of our famished frame,

In reply to your gracious, epistle of yesterday we hasten with all speed to re-ussure your anxious mind on the subject 'of our peace of mind and return. thrice-blessed, the sentiments of respect and honour you were kind enough to bestow on s a paltry and despicable par weite of your hospitable halls. In thanking you for the charitable excuse by which you seek to nvold payment of n debt justly owing to you, we enclose here- a cheque for $1.40 in full settlement of the account for which

you so generously allowed us credit and beg that you will make a careful scrutiny of your books to ensure that wo, in the meanness of our mercenary mind, are not still trespassing on the goodness of your heart.

George."

or some 17,000,000 ounces. The He lonthes the uncertaluty, the has just won two LC.C. victorice. hallion will be used for currency anxiety and the turmoil of In a desperate effort to preserve purposes and there will be na General Election and the irksome the seat intact and to prevent at danger of it being thrown into necessity that would be imposed any

repetition of East the market at some future date. upon him to clarify the political Fulham, the Government will con- The object appears to be, chiefly, position, frame a new programme centrate all its avaliable campaign-

clamour of the fug resources on this contest. the willingness and satisfy the The White House "to younger membora of the Conserva-;

A lending Labour organiser told something for

n thoroughly re- me confidently to-day that Labour silver" 4ve Party for

constituted Ministry.

has

North Hammersmith and at the same time to stave off

In Ita the remonetisation amendments.

pocket, and that if there were an He also fears for the safety of immediate General Election the Mr. MacDonald. It would be a Conservatives would lose more dreadful misfortune if Mr. MacDon- than half their 47 seats in the ald Were defeated at the potts; still¦ London boroughs. Some striking figures concerning worse would it be if the Conserva- the construction of new houses intive Parliamentary rank and le

I am by no means certain that England since the war were (who now regard the secr of this wider confidence is justifled, published on Saturday, but they Lossiemouth as a figure of fun L.C.C. voting is an unreliable it create an entirely false impres were to insist on a MacDonald alon if it is that the seriousness discard and on the substitution of not negligible guide to

mentary voting. of the housing problem has been genuine Conservative Prime

Labour, it must be recognised, exaggerated. Plenty of new Minister. bouacs have gone up, certainly, Such a development would knock has neither set its house in order but the fundamental problem of all the political stalling out of Mr. peal which is likely to inspire the nor organised any imaginative up. Te-housing the poorer members of Baldwin.

enthusiasm of either town or the community has scarcely been

The

whole point of the present country. It is relying too much on touched upon. It is encouraging artificial arrangement is that Mr. a swing of the pendulum which to learn that thousands of people MacDonald should be kept as will certainly not restore Labour are now house-owners or potential | national Aunt Sally. It does not house-owners for the first time, matter how many cannon balls of even to the 1929 position.

Its leadership Is in commission laid.) but it will be time for complacency public erfilcism are directed at

and Ita political ideas are in It is said that constant talk when the five-year slum clearance this inviting object or how Vacuo.

Why did the razorbill raino er programme ia completed, times it is hit in the solar plexus: The Liberals, still down on their bill? of war is apt, even certain, to before.

so long as the heads of the owner luck, are nevertheless the first of. To let the sen-urchin Hoo 'er group behind the screen do not the three parties in the State to chin-See? bring war. It means suspicion,

come Into too frequent contact review and restate their policy and feur, increase of armaments, and

with the cannon bails.

What tho Stars Forotell The flight In Washington over The arrangement

Mr. programme In the light of swiftly sooner or later another entaist-the Stock Exchange Control Bili Baldwin admirably

changing conditions. This con- Their simple message probably He looks sidered restatement is to be issued is that somebody did something rophe. That may be so; it is is not over, although it looks fairly after his Aunt Sally with

certain that Congress will finally almost maternal tenderness, sews that it will cantain a

on Friday next. I hope, above all, that he didn't ought, but they have open to argument.

boldly another message for our readers But there is gain the day. The victory may up it wounds, pours southing devised project of land resattle to-day. another side to the question not be complete; the Bill lost much compliments into its cars, lets it

mont. of its sting in re-drafting and preside at Cabinet meetings and If the Liberal Party would con-speaking lately in response to the which may be equally worth is fairly certain that the margin an occasional world Conference, centrate without niggling reserva-telescople prods given by our consideration. Some of the most requirements will not be rigidly and now and then himself peeps tions on a policy of this kind it local astronomers.

fixed, but left to the discretion of boldly forth from behind Aunt could eventually become the great Little Venus took a step to the destructive wars have not been the Federal Reserve Board; but or how faithfully the battered aggressive challenger of the rural|1ft and now atands with her legs

it Sally's ample torno to tell the A's a victory of a kind. preceded by war talk. They is

strongholds which continue to coyly crossed about two miles general rule, a start towards image is serving the cause of the provide English Toryism with its nearer the earth. This leaves her have come like a bolt from the legislation of this kind ends in its owner-group and how disastrous principal source of livelihood.

only seven billion miles away and blue-and-taken the world-by-gur. being shelved. Many times has to the public interest it would be.

we can read her message to the the stock market been investigated. to bust the show. 血

earth quito clearly. She says that prise. While the war talk about The public having been stuk in

people who were born on April 5. a slump

WAR TALK

SPECULATION CONTROL

not

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suits

many

an

No: there are good reasons why

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The Daily Mail, I see, with the Inspiration of genius

wants the

(N.B. The duplicate of this let- tor has, unfortunately been mig

The little twinklers have been

which such earnest protest is starts a hue and cry after Mr. Baldwin will not take the risk Government to hold the prospec-no matter how long ago, celebrate

ruverge.

the more

that

able no-one

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former need only telephone a roker; the latter is often told that there is no market," a phrase which has spelled doom to many

strategy.

requires is Lord Rothermere

•

inence and no security. Very honest.

·

Local Weather and Monster To-day's weather forecast As this is being written on the Thurs day prior to to-day we are some- what at loss to prophesy on this subject but a glance at another pago will probably give our read- era n. clao,

the "money barons" who аге made has its sinister side, it may always dubbed the responsible of throwing Aunt Sally to the tive Budget surplus "in reserve" in their birthdays to-day."

parties. As soon as there comes wolves.

order to "provide the Air Force This is really rather thrilling, have aspects of a brighter com-

a sign of returning prosperity, the On the other hand, some keen which British safety requires." dear rendere.

If this message should be for plexion. If men talk of war it agitation ceases and the public Conservative politicians, outside Forty millions or so for milltary

information from. is because they fear war, because again succumbs to the temptation as well as inside the Cabinet, are neroplanes would be pretty good you remember where you got your

inclined to take the view that an going. of "Homething for nothing"

early election is the wiscat What British safety evidently they have learned its stupid

Positions Wanted futility and the impossibility of MARKETABILITY

They argue that the longer the dictator. Then we would cut out Young Britisher, good runner, benefit to any nation or human That modification of the original Government lingers in office the the "dole" and the social services, wants position as cashier, prefer being always and ever the Fletcher-Rayburn Bill was desira- more swiftly its stock will deterio spend hundreds of millions and ably of bank. No previous experi

is likely to dispute rate; that at present there are no absorb all our unemployed

indications of violent swing to building the biggest Air Force, and enthusiastic. Reply Box 3746. All this talk of war Legislation, which is merely venge the Left; that the Liborni and the biggest Navy and the biggest has its reactive effect against fu might do two damaging things. Labour Parties are still at sixes Army in the world.

Wholesale liquidation might be and sevens, and that an election in Why not? I we are to go

would war. It may make for peace, provoked-which

bring the near future would almost loony, let us go loony the whole down the market values of all for, men being presumably sane, securities.

certainly result in the return of hog, with Lord Rothermore a And corporations

withdraw definitely Conservative-minded loony-in-chief. they discuss so mo- might be impelled to

from the stock exchange-which mentous a matter as this, the would destroy that easy market. more likely they will be to ace ability of securities which the tock exchange has created. This the peril and to avoid it.advantage is considerable. Com- Among the peoples of all coun- pare the stockholder and the reat catate holder who wish to realise tries to-day there is a pronounc-quickly on their holdings. The ed dotermination

peace must be preserved at any price. Even Germany, who is the one "dark horse" in Europe at the present time, has stated again and again, through. Chancellor

Three classes of critles supply stock market re- Hiller and other Nazi spokes the impetus to

form. They are losers, victims, men, the strength of her pacific and disinterested reformers. The intentions.. Yet the nations' losers are those who lost their money in what they know to be a statesmen lag far behind'in' the plain gamble. Their howls for a attempt to give practical effect sacrifice are hardly sportsmanliks. The victims are such warthy to the will of their peoples. But citizens as were, for instance, nd- when all is said and done, there vised by bank officials to invest their hard-earned savings in An- remains in the world a confi-conda when that stock was being dence that, however incompet-meials working in harness with "rigged" by employers of those ently or perversely statesmen unscrupulous gamblers. Then

tho reformera,

Horbert may handle the situation, war come. would be such an affront to the Spencer once commented upon the of righteous indignation" conscience of humanity that it in the United States. he were would not be tolerated. The there to-day, he would revise his question is whether the will of conclusion. There is an aroused mankind, fervently pacific, can public conscience against the stock market. The President, by effectually stay those who throwing the weight of his influ- the Pecora inqury, would engineer or bungle the behind world into another gigantic cat-focussed it. But such legislation

as ta approved must establish re-i astropho

form, not accomplish destruction

a business man.

MARKET CRITICS

"Couldn't invo, because you were, winnor?.

stand:THAT.

No, I can't under-.

The official forecast may be taken as correct when it turns out all right, but should you wish to have authoritative local informa- tion a glance at the bottom of this column will leave you little wiser. You will discover between the type and the bottom of the pagë n picture of the monster which was recently discovered at Stonecut- Lers laland and which is boing sought by the police. It is be- loved that the monster is travell- Ing without a passport and the local authorities have received a complaint from Loch Ness which gives ground for the suspicion that an impersonation is being com mitted.

This WAB

denied

by our Monster in an interview, but the Loch Ness Ratepayers Associa tion have briefed a Inwyer and are demanding that a close. Investi. gation of each animal's credentinla be conducted.

The last step we heard of was the formation of the Hongkong Society for the Proservation of Unnatural Amenities which is resolved, to protect the monster from the unwelcome publicity which has attended it since Its Inception a few months ago.

Things reached such a state re- cently in Scotland that the Mon- ster threatened to disappear un- loss its. Press notices were reduced and only the most hourtrending letters from poverty, stricken Journalists enablo them to boast theprosence of the monster. #among them to-day-