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SIX-POWER LOCARNO"": -

Russia's suggestions for a Six- Power, "Locarno of the Far East suffered the fate of the Japanese proposal for d non-aggression pact with the United States. They both fell Ont, America dropping Russian scheme had something to both ideas like hot bricks. The

commend it; the Japanese pro- posal none. A six-Power Locarno would at least stabilias present conditions in the Pacific, but it

that it was designed to ring her

OTTO HAPSBURG

By A. EGYEDI EDDY

DIRGE OF LAUGHTER. By George

MANY a much-maligned male will be present to

ANYONE who knows the Hapsburgs, who were at that time see "The Invisible Man" to- political situation in all powerful in the neighbouring night-excuse the unavoid- Hungary does not believe the throne of Hungary And In

countries, were invited to occupy able joke-in an effort to

was doomed by Tokyo's immediate that the restoration of the due course they obtained the right discover the secrets of hiding and quito justified Interpretation

Hapsburg Dynasty is at of porpetual succession. to the guilty conscience; conceal- round. The Soviets would be got hand.

throne from the soft hearted ing a large internal consumption much protection with little

Hungarians.

of booze; and making himself in- responsibility. On her part Japan,

Zito, who is A woman of

visible as he breaks into his own rejector of Russian proposals for intelligence as well as the ex- Empress, realized long ago that

house in the early hours of the morning.

ling

RUTHLESS CAMPAIGN. non-aggrcaalon pact, hoped to conclude auch a treaty with

The gratitude for their genero- Washington and thereby close the the prospects of the dynaty in the sity, however, was a ruthless door on any settlement out overwhelmingly socialist Austria Germanization campaign threaten- Personally we think that in- standing political questions in the are negligible. She know that ing their national existence. visibility should become general- Pacific. This was frivolous treat-there was a favourable tendency After 150 years of continuously applicable to human beings ment of a serious question,

towards restoration in Hungary, warfare the Hungarians made a soon-it has already been extended therefore she concentrated on supreme effort to throw off the to many other departments. educating her son to become the yoke of the Hapsburgs In 1848. The international polity in the King of Hungary. Otto still has The war of independence was For instance, bathing costumes are Special arrangements extended to the notorist Pacific must be multilateral. An ex Hungarian Instructors and if he successful, and in 1849, when now scarcely visible to the naked going on Home furlough for delivery in plesion would восп occur If ever does become the King of there were

oyo; girls' drossen have to be torn. London and as #t Toms and absent flateral methods wore introduced. Hungary, he will be the first troops on Hungarian territory: tions are only present in the spirit;

no more Austrian

to be believed; church congrega- Stability in the Orient was under- Hapsburg to talk fluently the Franz Joseph appealed to the

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#Utason arranged. Full particulars on P who abandoned tons and guns a

the Washington Conference In 1921 he is the king. in exchange for political agrec-

the independence movement of the visible under a pile of 1.0.0's.

If we wore an invisible man wê ments. And these agreements were This may sound incredible, it is Hungarians executing 13 of their

was could have a great time treading. extremely specific. They insured the truth nevertheless. The fact most herole generals. It the status quo of Pacific relations is that the Austrians are Germans, shortly after this that Austrian on policeman's foot, having free by a security, pret. They also while the Hungarians are an alto armies occupied Lombardie and rides in buses, and sitting with the guaranteed the territorial integrity and administrative independence gether different race and speak a Venice, the Autrians thus becom-girl in her offes,

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TUESDAY, AUG. 14, 1934.

12th

WHY NOT A HUNGARIAN?

DIRGE OF GEORGE.

When, vacant eyed, we pause and

stop

And cogitate, upon this rot, And think of all the grind that

goes

Morels to wrinkle up your nose, We wonder if. It's worth the

while

To cramp our modest natural

style;

To dissipate a natural humour In daily chat of joke and rumour; To pull the honest gestry's leg And bolst the lowly up a peri To make a laugh at your expensë Earn us

a monthly heap of pence;

To pass the serious space of time Facetiously in doggerol rhymo; For over out to ridiculo

The wise man as the simple foot: To hold th' ingenuous up to fun And pawn a friend to make ́s

pun; Passing as the courtly Jester' The grave to irritate

and -poster?

of China. Only after these open language as different from German ing the most hated enemies of the However, as it is, we have to questions had been closed were the an English is from Chinese. The Italians. The samo fate befell content ourselves, with making powers able to come to a limitation outside world became to regard Behemis in the 16th, and Poland Jokes that you can't see. of armaments agreement on a basis Austria-Hungary as one nation on in the 18th Century. In-all these which ensured the aupremacy of every Pacific flest in home waters, account of the fact that both wars of conquest and plunder the countries had the same king and Hapsburgs always protected their NAVAL ISSUES SECOND · the same ambassadors abroad, but own kin by keeping them on home behind the curtain of this appar-duty and sending the other fellow This interrelation and interently perfect political unity the

to do the fighting dependence of the political and Hungarians had to sustain a con- naval agreements signed at

The old family sock, however, Washington was concisely stated Germanizing tendencies of the Serbia

tinuous struggle

against tho had become too worn to engulf by Mr. Stimson in his famous com Hapsburgs threatening the nation- everybody knows the debacle which (now Yugoslavia), and munication to Senator Berahiral and cultural life of Hungary, followed the Austrian attempt to February 1932, It was instantly controverted by the Japanese.

expand on the Balkans in 1914. HUNGARY'S HISTORY. But the fact was so patent that

The position to-day is that no- even Japanese publicista could not How did the Hapsburgs enter body, except the Hungarian aria- blot out the time schedule. It into the history of Hungary which tocrats want Otto and they want TRAFFIC PROBLEMS was only after the political prob- has been an Independent country, to have him back for purely selfish leme of the Far East had been since the ninth century and had a reasons, The aristocrats have The public has awaited with settled at the Washington Confer-constitution as far back as A.D. always been the mainstay of the marked interest the inaugura-ence that the powers proceeded to 1222, ie, seven years after the

house. They are the ruling tion of Hongkong's new automa-eign a naval limitation agreement. Magna Charta?

satellites of the king and they can tic traffic signalling device, in provided by the order of the con- This latter clinched the nexus

only shine when the sun lumin- The Hapsburg dynasty originat-ates them. At present they are at the hope that it will contribute ference. Article 19 of the naval ed in Saxony (Southern Germany, the last ditch defending the ruina to a greater measure of safety treaty stabilized the status quo in between Bavaria and Thuringia) of their estates in face of the for users of those thoroughfares regard to fortifications and naval and its history is a large scale inercasing number of land reforma, where congestion is most bases. There could not have been edition of the life of evident. The Colony's traffic any auch self-denying ordinance Peasant hoarding wealth in his authority personified in the king Saxon and only the return of the problem, especially in the matter in the absence of a security agree-sock. There was nothing chival can save them from final destruc of securing greater protection ment. What has happened since rous or romantic about the rise of tion.

this obscure family which came for pedestrians, increases in short of an uprooting of this inter-into the limelight in the

this historic conference is nothing complexity as time goes on. This is an experience common to most cities. Shanghai has re- cently been considering the question, but the municipal authorities have been unable to make up their minds as to what | more can be done to ease the situation. Two points which have recently been receiving attention are publicity measures at the more prominent places as to the danger of crossing streets, and safety zones similar to those adopted by most large cities. On the former point, one dill- culty encountered is that the majority of pedestrians injured in street accidents are of the [type who are unable to read, and for this reason the display- ing of danger notices is con- been subordinated to the League sidered to be of doubtful value Covenant und the Kellogg pact. Regarding types of accident And now that the opportunity has most common, it is shown that arrived with the necessity for mishaps do not very frequently wonton

4 successor to the occur at actual street crossings;

agreement they are usually caused by which expires next year, the pedestrians dashing: across the Japanese have endeavoured to roads in front of fast moving tical discussions. All that

erect a taboo against general poli- traffic. Most of the important will consent to is bilateral conver- they crossings have pedestrian lane-sations for the purpose of negotiat- ways marked in yellow 'paint, but ing non-aggression pacts:that are these are rarely used. In fact, meaningless in the circumstances

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national polity. The Four Power century by conquering territories pact, which guaranteed the status in that part of Europe which is It is not impossible that the quo in the islands of the Pacific, now Switzerland and Alsace.

Interested parties will stage a is involved because the Nine After becoming the ruling house come-back and help Otto to become Fower pact la in tatters.

of Austria, then one of the many the King of Hungary, The pen. Germanic kingdoms, the Hapsburgs sant population which le in kept on filling the family sock absolute majority would not mind through lucky marriages, force having a king, but the Government The powers were on sure ground and subterfuge. There is not one of Hungary to-day is perfectly when they Invoked the Nine Power "beau gente", not one noble deed, capable of taking care of the pact in the Manchurian dispute. not one heroic action which can affairs of the country and does not This pact specifically safeguarded be recorded in the seven centuries at all favour the return of the Chinese sovereignty. When Japan of existence of this selfish family Hapsburgs, not to mention the recognised Manchukuo, which was whose life can truly be likened to Litile Entente which is "dead carved away from Chinese sover that of an ambitious peasant against the restoration. And, gnty, it violated what as recently avidly gobbling up all the avail-after all, the Hungarians think

Feb. 21, 1932, she and called able land about him and using all why not have a king of their own

standing alone in possible methods of acquisition. great beacon

if they must have one? Can any the mazes of Chinese Internation-

thinking Hungarian, who knows a

al relations." Such a altuation, After the liberation of Budapest little history, wish to seo again on under the Nine Power pact, calle from the Turks, not quite 250 years the throne of Hungary a descend- for "full and frank communica- 4go, the Hungarians found them-ent of the Hapsburgs, the deadliest without M king. The enemies of the liberty of peoples? tion." No parley has been held selves

under

that instrument. It

fully ninety per cent. of of the times,

Shanghai's accidents in which

has

pedestrians are involved occur | MUTUAL INSURANCE lat points which Bre not

authorised

crossing

Diplomacy has gone back to the places. time-worn paths of negotiation on London hns been latterly the basis of facts. This is shown experimenting with safety in Europe in the activity of Rusala zoncs, apparently with some and France in promoting mutual measure of success. In theas insurance treaties. Neither the areas, the pedestrian la given League Covenant nor the Kellogg right of way over all other pact has proved to be the rock forms of traffic, but the point to ton which

could lay-seeking na- be kept in mind is that he is have begun to fend for themselves Therefore they. compulsorily required to cross in building minor but more sub- at the indicated points. Hong-stantial bases. Yet none of them kong once tried this plan, some is exclusive." Other nations aro years ago, but through lack of at borty to join them If |adequate, authority in making they are so dlapoced So there

the rule

must be no development of the compulsory, the bilateral and exclusive methods in iden had to be abandoned. the Pacifle which were The jay-walker is still a con- overboard wi

Rio brow

the

stant source of trouble locally ese alliance. On th

On this issue, and as also are people who dash out this alene, depends the size of from verandahs on to the busy navles of the principal maritime streets. If they will not co-powers. More tons and more guns operate, the time may come that the world will pay for the without limitation will be the price when compulsion will have to be absence of any now political syn- applied,

tem in the Pacific.

"I wouldn't give her so many educational toys. You know, no-

body likes, an awfully intelligent,

Constant heard with raucous

voice

Urging the saddest to rejoice; To throw off sober meditation And feign perhaps a false ela-

tion

To seek always the silver lining Where none is there worth whifle

the finding:

To chatter frivolously of things) From skewers, elephants," and

kings;

Turning old chestnuts o'er again To seek a kernel in the grain; A chuckle is our great reward And if a laugh' you can afford, Wo fool that day had not been

spent

In fruitless work. A laugh's

but loat

And think, to-morrow, we are

due

To try redeem your 1.0.U.; And if one day the well-spring

drica

And, the twinkle fades out from

our eyes

Witnessing barrenness Instead of. Amirtis,

Forecasting youthful Joy's un-

timely dearth,

We shall yet have the right

equaff A

Our sorrows in another laugh; And if no clown provides the

spirit

Ourself shall cheer us with good

morit.

The fact which has recently come to light that Adam died of gout must be a source of great delight to the numerous colonels, tolpans, and journalists whose dis torted, old age has been, taken as further evidence in support of Darwin's theory of the missing. link.

From the faded pages of the sixteenth century: Saxon pedigres chart from which the above Is culled, we may now be able to learn in Black and White, who put the kick in White Horse.

"It was me," said Adam speaking to our representative through tho medium of the Congenial Spirit in Chinese shorthand.

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