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NOTES OF THE DAY
THE TEST ROW
It needs only one more thing to give the much-maligned M.C.C. Committee a week of thoroughly sleepless nights. That would be an announcement by Larwood, object-
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EUROPE SAFE AGAINST WAR?
Coll
By MILTON BRONNER
The Very Idea!
BRIGHTER BOWLS
By George
BOWLS. A WICKED WOOD.
Blackjack Lacked Leys' In Hectic Fight
UNBIASSED REPORT. Willie Wormhunter rose to un- surpassed heights last night when he outshot Bertle Blackjack in the learnway final of the singles championship before hundred crown-green fans at the Hijackers. Venue last night.
THE Colony bowling championship having al- ing to being thrust into the back-TS Europe insured against warition does not encourage awa: most reached its final stages ground by the Voce controversy, for the next 10 years? Are the mood.
we print to-day a letter from that he is willing to play in the better to-day than they have been she was on the evo of 1914. The would like to see the thrill of
prospects for European pence
She is even more isolated than an enthusiastic reader who Final Test. Not that it would for some time?
only strong power even half way make any important difference- It looks so to me, despite the friendly in Italy, and that country the game reproduced in other than providing another flood of loose war talk. France has traditionally been lonth to be journalese. Thuswise, weapon for the critics of England's and Germany are like two little on the opposite side front England.
boys polley in the log-theory businean.
with chips on their shoulders, But it is not only the military WORMHUNTER Here, of course, it is impossible daan't."
but "one is afraid, and the other and the foreign altuations which act na brakes upon Hitler. The to get at the rights and wrongs of France is afraid that another internal situation makes peage nl- the dispute. When onc noted war might bleed her white and most imperative. Journalist declares that the Ans- apeil her doom even if she won. Hitler still has to consolidate
Germany tralians are resentful of Voce's leaders wonder what would hap during which some of his former isn't ready, and her his power. The recent "purge," tactles and another, of equally highpen if war came, and they had to trusted associates were killed, repute, swears that they see no
up Jewa, Socialists, Com- shows his danger right within his resemblance between Voce leg muniats, trade unionists, and own Nazi ranks. This blood-bath theory and the objectionable body. Catholfes, and put rifles in their has probably made Ifftler now line form of attack, where is the
handa,
enomics thirsting for revenge. mero reader to go for the correct
PLEDGES ARE NOT KEPT. answer? It may not even be true,
He has left many of his prom- as appearances seem to suggest, "The main danger is some unexises unfulfilled. He hus not closed that the M.C.C. are funking using, pected and unpredictable, event, the big department stores to make their most effective attack for fear such as was the murder of Arch- a holiday for the middle class of
duke. Ferdinand of Austrin at small shopkeepers. of causing offence. It is quite Sarajevo 20 years ago. On form. He has not divided the big possible that they have studied both neither France nor Germany wanta Junker estates among the land- the methods of Voce and Larwood war, and there is reason to be-hungry peasauts. He has not yet and have decided that they prefer love that even apparently jingo conquered the bugbear of unem to play the Australians at ordinary happenings--the menacing speech ployment.
of Germany's Rudolph Hess, and! cricket, not a new-fangled form of the ancient game, whether the de- Minister, Mr. Barthou to England the hasty vinit of France's Foreign ciaton means victory or defeat.may be paving the way to peace Tom Clarke talks rot when ho rather than. war. condemns any suggestion of play- ing Voce on a single performance. Voce's capabilities were well-known before Saturday. But he may still be right in commending the Selec- tors for declining to be stampeded.
HOW TOURISTS PAY
to
The value of what are called "invisible exports" in a nation's economy is clearly illustrated by recent, figures showing just what the tourist trade in worth to France. During 1933. for instance, American tourists spent about 1,500,000,000 franes ita In that year, French exports to the France United States were a little more than half that value-808,000,000 francs,
But alueer 500,000,000 words, as far as the United States is concerned, the tourist business is foreign trade. There is one is worth twice as much to France other interesting little thing about it. French authorities have tabulated the way in which the and they have found that just 7 tourist's money is spent in France: per cent, of it goes for what might be called wine, women and song. That, considering the popular tradition about the tourist's way of amusing himself in Paris, seems surprisingly low.
WAR'S AFTERMATH ·
Such troops might be more dan- gorous to Nazi oficers than to the enemy,
HESS KNOWS BETTER,
Hess' apeech amounts to whis- thing in the dark to keep up Ger- man courage. He assured France of Germany's peaceful intentions, but got the hurrah boys busy by asserting that, if France invaded Germany, France would have to fight a united nation.
Winning the toss with a coln hastily borrowed from one of the reporters, Willle elected to kick off with the sun, behind him and his drst wood tore up the green to smash the jack into the nullah amidst frenzied cheers.
Playing inspired' bowls in the absence of his wife who was at Outside his own party, his out- tending the funeral of her of the Jews have made them his time and again with dainty woods look is blank. His persecutions mother, Willie caressed the jack enemies to a man. The same ap- while Bertie continually falled plies to the Socialists, Commu- with close cannons or losing nists, and trades unionista, whose hazards. organizations he destroyed.
Arreate and threats to Catholics have largely alienated adherents of that powerful church.
REICHSWEHR IN DOUBT. The Steel Helmots, composed of conservative veterans of the World War, are less than luke- He knows botter. He knows warm. Final stand of the regular that only a part of the Germana army, the Reichswehr, is problem- would be united. And he knows ntical.
of modern warfare.
I
his tee shot and was bunkered be
At the terith head Bertie sliced hind a divot kicked up by Willie.
The silence could be heard for miles around. We was then two up with ten to go."
fans.
The Crowd Roars.
At half time Blackjack lodgeď an unpopular appeal for falling light but Willie countered on the that even that part is ill-prepared Finally and vastly significant is plea that the lemons were sour. for a fight with a nation armed that in the Four-Power Pact The match goes on!" roared. to the teeth with every weapon among France, Germany, Italy hurricane applause of the frantic roferce Hampton amidst tho and Great Britain, the time limi- It is true that both nations are tation was 10 years. The same nervous. France is nervous about period was stipulated in his peaceted the line for the final stanzas,
Pale and drawn the contestants. threatening to rearm, despite the
Germany of 85,000,000 people pact with Poland.
That means that Hitler · eat!- n alight argument' over Willió Versailles Treaty, Germany in mates he needs at least that using Bertie's mat being decided equally nervous lest France start amount of breathing space. If he by the referee who found that the
"preventive" war.
got into a first-class war now, ho mat belonged to him. would have to call up all his DOOMED EVEN IF VICTOR."
available manpower, including all France wants peace so she can those hundreds of thousands of glas because another war would develop her colonial empire, but men who bitterly hate his regime. just about bleed her white and
WOULD RAISE UP NEW PERIL be her finish even if she won.
He would have to put into their friendliness with Soviet
Hence her sudden jump into hands rifles, machine guns, and
Russia, hand grenades, A her frantic efforts to woo Poland might be more dangerous for Hit- jack fell flat on the fairway but course that Overcome by excitement Black-
pact with Germany, her careful enemy. since the latter signed a peace ler and his henchmen than for the his supporters fanned him with nursing of the Little Entente
the tape measure to such tune that Czechoslovakia, Rumunia
But in 10 years the picture will he came out of his corner at the and be different. The manpower of eighteenth session to protest Yugoslavia), and her assiduous to-day will be middle-aged by then against leg. theory allegedly adopt pursuit of mutual understandings and can be left at home-or-put-to-ed-by-Willie. with Great Britain.
work in the factories and on the
Blackjack laid four woods round the jack and one on top in the Hoventeenth head and it looked all up for Wormwood Scrubs but Willie,
题 whirling wasp-like wrist, dribbled from the wing to crash the shot in the bottom right hand corner,
Reports of the likelihood of Japan denouncing the Washing ton Naval Treaty are not sur- prising. They naturally follow the reception which has been accarded to the feelers sent out from Tokyo regarding the Japanese desire to achieve equality with the United States and Britain. It has been made evident that Japan's insistence on this demand would be met with opposition, and to this fact may be attributed the reported intention of the Japanesc Government to denounce the Treaty. The presumption is that if Japan is unable to bring the United States and Britain round to her viewpoint, she will, by disengaging herself from the obligations laid down in the Washington agreement, preserve for herself a free hand regard- ing future naval expansion. In
A forest fire recently swept short, denunciation of the Treaty near Chalons-sur-Marne, France. contrary, there is no tangible ev- been moulded in the Nazi form. himself snookered by a molchili
through a part of Apremant Forest,
make it. Despite rumours to the military age. They will haveed his first shots, sent up a wide and a no ball and then found would be another step along the Immediately the air was filled with
idence that Germany has any They will have learned the Nazi which the club's mascot had been. path which she has marked out the crash of exploding shells, which adequate supply of heavy artil- veralon of history. for herself. At the moment, Jarred the countryside and put the lers, tanks or other offensive wea They are the cannon fodder of
working on for the last two daya. there is no official confirmation
fire-fightera in Krave danger. pons forbidden her by the Ver- the morrow. They will grow to "Too bad," said the hilarious of the reported Intention, but it Bitter fighting took place in this sailles Treaty.
manhood with no recollections of went up for an interview and a Willie to our representativo as he is pointed out by the Japanese forest during the war. Many
the horrors of the last war. They drink. "I would have won easier Embassy in Washington that a them were "dude" had defective shells were shot into it. Some of
will be taught the glory of dying if I had brought my mallet." strong sentiment exists in Japan.
heroes' deaths for the Fatherland for action along these lines. explode. So, during all the years fuses, or something--and failed to
and Hitler. This may be taken to indicate since, they lay there, waiting for that the Tokyo Governmont is the fire to come and touch them off. anxious to see what the reactions There is something ghostly about of the other interested Powers the thought of those messengers of would be to such a move. It is death biding their time in the old story of sounding world they simply parallel the effects of
depth of
peaceful forest. But opinion in advance, which is war in human characteristic of Japanese diplo- leaves many
relations. War unexploded shells- macy. The trouble so far, in hatreds, jealousies, suspicions, in- regard to the forthcoming Naval justices, desires for revenge and Conference, has been that Japan, they lie inert, sometimes, for many whilst repeatedly throwing out years waiting for the moment hints as to her likely attitude, let them destroy human lives.
of heat that will blow them up and has not seen fit to make a definite officini declaration. The consequence has been to increase MAKING MATTERS WORSE the speculation regarding the
Hitler, leader of Germany, also farms,
Willie dexterously wooed the needs peace. Even if he desired
jack in the twentieth and final. The boys of to-day, who are 8 head when Blackjack double fault- a war, he is to-day not prepared to and 9 years old, will then be of
line likely to be taken, although
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the
enough has been hinted to show the drought should cut American It is an ironic circumstance that that, a bold bid will be made to wheat production secure a revision of the existin. point in a generation, just at the to the lowest restrictions. It will not, how-time when the government has ever, be an easy matter for been spending huge
suma in вл Japan, to convince the world that effort to reduce farm production. there is any real call for varia- has been to increase the farmer's The American government's plan tion of the ratios laid down at Income by persuading him to re- the Washington Conference. duce his acreage. Right into the There is not at present, nor in middle of this programme` has prospect, any threat to Japanese como a great natural catastrophe security. Moreover, Japan has which has knocked the bottom an infinitely smaller sea zone to right out of everything. Estimates protect than either the United at Washington vary but they all States or Britain. In the, cire that wheat farmers will cumstances, the Tokyo Govern thousand million dollars because of suffer a less of, not less than a ment will have great difficulty in the drought. cxtablishing a case for rovision many With The only Income of existing agreements in her the AAA benefit payments, made get this year will be favour. But the situation turn drought makes Insignificant. The for nerengo limitations which the undoubtedly take a serious were Japan to cut herself adrift from co-operative effort with the other Powars and strike out on a course of her own.
programme, was enough to begin wheat problem, like the AAA with. The drought simply intensi- fies complexity of a puzzle that was already far too involved.
GERMANY NOT READY. Her splendid civilian air fleet might be converted into bombers, but she has no visible force of
fighting planes. She has abund
They will be ready, perhaps, in a decade or 80, for a new war, ance of man power, but not enough but not ready to-day. And in that rifles and machine guns to make unreadiness lies a hope for peace them effective. Her foreign altun that is often overlooked.
"Oh, dear, I never have a minute I can call my own."
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EVA AND THE MAN.
great innovation but we think.
Self-starting cars have been a
the old type of automobile which. could. be better described as self- etopping, took a great deal of beating from the point of view of the pleasure-owner-driver.
Nowadays we just let the bus peter out and lean luxuriously back on the new upholstery to get. na arm round the girl with the re- mark: "I expect the engine's bit het dear. It'll be all right in n minutę.' Whereupon the girl lifts up the bonnet and after cursory glance comes back to report "Mookey ploogs!"
This is one of the reasons wo have never had a car, the other reason being that vo could hever get a giri to go out, with us. If we had one. Having a "nover- never" girl in a car bought on the never-never system is a combina- tion wo couldn't face...
n
Of course the now traffic In stallation really decided us agninat a car after we had falled to bor row the money or learned to drive. We visualised majorist waiting on the rubber mat patient- ly counting thirty seconds for the tenth time while on the opposite mat stood a couple of pedestrians- Kooping their foot dry during thefr conversation. On the other road a ricksha boy stood explaining the system in broken Hoklo to an English-speaking Swiss lady while opposite him two tired coolles had laid a wardrobe, a table, and the best part of a house on the mat in
order to take a rekt
We wondered just what would happen if they all saw red at the same time,
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