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NOTES OF THE DAY

WAR SCARE-

senre

THE MERSEY MIRACLE

By R. C. H. WAITHMAN

The Very Idea!

ON VOLUNTEERS! By George

ARE you a volunteer?

VOU stop your car at one off of the first cars that entered it. Y

the green toll-boxes at the There was a thrill each time, but how Mersoy, Tunnel main entrance to thrill like that first struggle on in Liverpool, and a uniformed foot through the mud and mist briskly says: official, leaning out of his window, and pouring water.

If not clean your teeth "Twelve horse- We pledded through a tunnel and harden your corns and power? Two ahillings with pas-only 16 feet high, dimly lit, jareddon the uniform of the

with rocks, reverberating with the H.K.V.D.C. machine, and before you have heading which the engineers drove Your Ickets come out of a crash of machinery--the first pilot passed down the, 60 yards white through the uncharted rock. The only four feet high, and have no It doesn't matter. If you are slope to the Tunnel mouth two finished tunnel was made out of parting in your hair. As long other machines, unseen and unaus- parallel exploratory hendings, one as you can stand on your lega pucted, have made sure about your above the other fitness to go through,

They drove the lower heading be they never so thin--the Corps. rst so that the ground above will wrap them round with put- could be tested,

Russo-Japanese- war rumoura still persist, but nothing has occurred to change the viaw previously expressed that neither the gauntlet without a great deal country is ready to throw down more. provocation than it has at present received. Further Air- sengers," rests of Soviot employees of the C.E.R. may annoy Russin (and that may be the objective) but Moscow is not likely to go to war over them. The Soviet leaders are too ready to bandy words. For every accusation made by the Japanese War Office or. Forele Offico they aro rondy with a counter-charge, which, curiously enough, is usually an insistence that the true state of affairs is precisely the opposite of that suggested by the Japanese, While they are in that mood, little real harm can come.

RUSSIA'S AIM

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Your wheels have run over a weighing device which will bar roof has passed under an invisible you if you are too heavy, and your

were 1,700 men on the job later

Two sota of workmen thore tees free of charge.

..

If you are cross-oyed and have no chest you are still eligible for service at H.Q., and if you are bow-legged and handsome you. will always and a horse ready to give you a background in the Mounted Company.

Do you know that there are

Why is this? Don't ask us.

cell, which in a light-sensitive at Liverpool and Birkenhead had will ring a clamorous been drilling and blasting their hell if you are too tall-that is, way towards one another under the If the top of your vehicle inter- river, and no outsider knows just rupts the ray.

how much it meant when they met, The roadway slopes downwards, on April. 3. 1928, and found that and a half-light, comparable with their line was no more than five- the tight of a main street after eighths of an inch out of axact dark, prevails for two miles. High centre, overhead le a white, curved roof. At any time the drills and ex-4,000 Britons eligible for wearing

The perfect surface of a wide plosives might have penetrated an rond is divided by studs into four unsuspected water-filed fissure in the heavy stiff boots of the V.D.C. traffle lanes-slow and fast in each the rocks. There was one breath- and that only 904 do, and that direction. It is a practically safe bet that siden-FIRE STATION (overy 150 three feet six inches of rock to

Red lighted sigus project at the working with a shelter of only that the other half do?

less spot where the men were about half attend half the parades Russia will steer clear of anything feel), ST. GEORGE'S DOCK separate them from the clay and suggestive of warlike intentions (where a Junction, with famillar graval bed of the Mersey in the Far East until she has betraffic lights, shows smallor come a member of the Lengue of tunnel curving away to the second- 400,000 tons

It has been recorded that 33,--

We have a pair of the Corps water were pumped Nations. Not because Moscowary Liverpool entrance) and, at out before, in October, 1932, the

boots but we have to use them. has any great faith in the efficacy the bottom of the slope, about a Tunnel was made absolutely water- to defend of the League, but because M. mile from the

ourselves from entrance, MID tight. At one time the engines Litvinaf is a cautious statesman.

TUNNEL.

Béhroff's and at fancy dress balls. suspects Japan and still believes in

Continuous noise surrounds you. minute.

were pumping out 4,300 gallona a

Our own experience on joining the moral forces of public opinion. In spite of a by-law forbidding When the two headings were presented one of these pictures of Russia will nevor appear

hooting and honing everybody nt enlarged into one big tunnel a poignancy and pathos which stirs as the aggressor in any outbreak this early stage of the Tunnel's cast fron lining weighing 82,000 the heart of every Empire bulider, of war in the Orient, whatever fe feels called upon to test the tons was fastened into place. UP When we broke the news to the happens. And if war does come echo: and there Is a background of against that lining went iron and Russia is a member of the rushing air-a sound like the segments, each nearly a ton in sobbing. family it, was as if the League, Soviet atateamen rely upon breaking of a long wave over weight, which had to be bolted, end of the world had come. public opinion to deprive Japan of rocks,

packed with cement under trem- allies or of war support in other

Cars are overtaking, and cutting endous pressure and caulked with in. You are astonished when lead wire before the last of the your speedometer shows no more water was finally shut out. than 25.

ways.

FIRST IMPORTANCE

Asia.

NO PRECEDENT.

There was no precedent to guide

We torg ourselves from the arms of our wife, wrote put our resigna- tion from the pacifist Philharmonic Society and rushed out to get our. uniform,

Now you are accelerating up a gentle alone. Beneath the Mersey beneath the keel, it may be, of a

Wo were invelgled into the 20,000 ton liner you have left tho, builders of a tunnel this size. Lancashire and entered Cheshire. tunnel-the Holland Tunnel, con- tant uncle had once owned a The next largest under-water Anzaca on the ground that a dis- A little longer and the daylight

necting New York with Jersey

at Birkenhead is rushing to meet city beneath the Hudson River Kangaroo and that the company re you. You have been in the Tunnel is 1.76 miles long and has two boasted a very chic hat, but we

just five minutes.

parallel tubes of 29 feet external have since thought we would have diameter, each with a 20-foot wide done better to have joined the

tunnels) and has one great tube road. The Meracy Tunnel is 2.87 Scots. miles long (including the branch of 46 fest external diameter, with one 36 feet wide road.

Tunnel. One that did arise was

"FINISHED" IN ENGLAND

After all you can withhold a hat plume like the Anzacs did, but you can't withhold a pair of kilts, without giving a man

• good excuse for not parading. Anyway roll up boys, and say

we sent you-they have

It has long been the custom in

All the ground has been pre- pared for the Soviet'a entry as a Hongkong to look upon the

full member of the Geneva in- Government as rooted in its att-nical difficulties have been

stitution next month. The tech ministrative functions, leaving moved. Election by the As business alone to look after its Bembly is virtually guaranteed, own weal and woe.

WHAT IT WAS LIKE ONCE. Occasional

with the application Uncked by interventions by Government in political desirability is question- Mersey Tunnel and named It both Britain and France. The economale affairs have been marked

When the King opened the new nowhere in Europe. The Queensway he said that reflection ed by unconcealed reluctance to

irreconcilables may refrain from is needed to appreciate its wonder, likely to the propoon) but are un- That is because it is working so an attitude that has been in- In short, there is little mystery

to put in an opposing voice. smoothly: Весливе

The Antwerp road tunnel under everything the River Scheldt is only about about it looks offortless, fluentially encouraged, for

about Russian diplomacy. Pri

1.33 miles long; and the other- But on the morning, six years hithe and Blackwall road tunnels reasons not unconnected with Goneva as

yately M. Litvinoff may think of

ago, when I was equipped with under the Thames are respectively the profit motive. Only when a

the chatter-box of thigh boots, oilskins and a sou 4.363 feet and 4,465 feet long. that Europe, but he is astute enough wester and taken down in a cage catastrophic crash came and the borship and that the formalities Tunnel it looked anything but in those early days of the Mersey and we've got a long way to go.

to realise the advantages of mem-to make my first trip through the emergencies were going to crop up parade for each recruit we gain. So that nobody could tell what promised, to mark us down for n banks, their credit calculations must be all upset, were unwilling to lend scaled before he can give serious

approved, signed and effortless. did the Government take any thought to the tinder-box of times after that and when the was going to cost £1,375.000 more I went through half a dozen the discovery that the ventilation notable part in economic restora~-

Tunnel was completed I drove one than had been estimated," tion. Then they established the interesting precedent of the U.S. POLITICAL MAZE Trade Loan. It is interesting because the conception of the Government, as able largely to hold itself aloof from such mundane matters as trade and the well-being of the Colony's inhabitants may have to undergo important revision. All over the world governmenta economic problems are becoming more closely acquainted. De- tailed economic control is aiready accepted in many countries and fast being developed in others, including Great Britain. A variety of New Deals, suiting national temperaments, are being worked out, the

one for private enterprise and initia- associating link being the wide tive, the responge will bo acceptance of Government laggard. As things are, these obligation not only to protect seem, to some extent to be fair citizens from flood, violence and assumptions. In the last

Is

and

By RENNIE O'MAHONY. THE fact that foreign girls are!

The political tangle in tho British people who are acquainted United States' must seem comic to only with the clear-cnt party Toning in increasing pound, many English girls have lines of

Since the fall in the value of the

"Anished," instead of our girls go of going abroad before coming mumbers to our shores to be taken to staying at home instead ing abroad as formerly, points a out." moral-which surely is that the

The process of being "Anished" English girl can hold her own in in England has turned the English all the accomplishments on which girl into a new person. She has the foreign girl prides herself.

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elections in England. publicar for Senatorial office and Democrats nominating a Re- attacking a Democratic President's policies; Republicans publicly an nouncing their support of Mr. where he did, or can he be sure Roosevelt. Stands the President exactly where he does stand?, Of course, there is nothing new in the which is bringing it to a hend. situation, beyond the New 'Deal

Predictions of sharp realignments in the not distant future have a pretty sound basis.

invasion, but also from undue analysis, the vital issue is the disturbance of economic equili- policy of the government, for brium. And, sooner or later, in private initiative is far more some form or other, Hongkong likely to exert itself as part of a may be compelled to follow suit. bigger and broader scheme of re

Part recognition of such an covery or improvement than if obligation 18 clearly con-invited to an independent effort. tained in the recent ap-1And In framing its policy, the pointment of a Trade Com-government must inevitably re- mission, although there

is aflect upon the broad principle of disposition in some quarters to participation in the Colony's discount the value of any economic life, even after the de- recommendations it may make in pression is over. "Rescue work". advance. The spirit is not com- is the primary requirement of plimentary but there is a certain the moment, without a doubt. argument behind it. One reason but the future test of good concerns the present subject; government will be found in and arises from doubt of Govern-something entirely different. ment willingness to authorise Not in willingness to examine any large financial stake from proposals for rollovingade- public resources in recovery pression, but in the success of measures. Another expresses the measures taken for the feeling that if the Comminimising the swing of the mission's recommendations call economic pendulum.

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