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THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1934,

N.R.A.

REFORM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY DIPLOMATIC

LINKED HANDS IN PACIFIC?

THE

BRIDGE

GAMES

By GODFREY, LIAS

The Very Idea!

CHEUNG CHAU AND....!

By George EAR George,

DEAR I see that a num-

European diplomats are hinting these days that if the 1935 naval conference falls there will develop a new, far-reaching "understand- Ing" between the United States and Great Britain in the Pacific. It is reported that the two nations THE aerobatic French Foreign Britain sees in the new Eastern ber of ponies are returning would discuss · a joint naval de-

Minister, M. Louis Barthou, Locarno a chance of lessening the to the Colony after vacation fence plan, reaching from Alaska to Australia. Plans for conducting who is credited with the unusual possibility of having to Interveno. and are now being mani- joint operations against a common accomplishment of being able to But it also wants to lessen the foe would be devised; new British walk across his room in the Quat danger that such intervention, if cured out of the griffin naval bases would be constructed d'Orsay on his hands, certainly made, will be carried on in the stage.

Though still a griffin I have in Australia, and wound be avall-preserved a most correct equili- face of opposition from other able to American ships in case of brium-mental as well as physical powers outside the League--not yet to follow the ponies in their need. All this, of course, is on the during his recent visit to Lon-ably, of course, Uncle Sam,

What Sir John and M. Barthou vacation trip and the more I suppoaltion that Japan will inalet don, when he obtained a promise

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and Sir Edward

on full naval equality and will of Great Britain's active diplo and to one another in their talks follow them the less likely it thereby precipitate, a naval con-matic support of the Franco- at the Foreign Ofice only a pri- seems that I shall get any vaca-

for Eastern vileged fow know. But what they tion at all. struction race. It goes without, Russian plan

Locarno.

thought runs something like this. In flat racing I always seem to saying that there is not the slight-

In sober fact, he performed the The Frenchman, planning for his and an obstacle, and in hardling est confirmation of the gossip at

always fall flat and now that the either Washington

still more difficult feat of inducing country's security, which would be or London. The development might be a logical his English vis-a-vis, Sir John endangered by war anywhere in Government are taking three per cent. of every six million dollars the conclusion of nations have Simon, to invert, not his person, Europe, urged one, at that. The common interests in the Pacific. but the foreign policy which Sir mutual assistance treaty guaran- it hardly seems worth my willo It would hardly be surprising if John and his predecessors before teeing the inviolability of existing betting it all.

And about quiet parties. I have him have been pursuing for years. frontiers and signed by the Soviet they sought to find a common mean Ever since the days of Lord Curzon Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the always found that the most genteel of defending them.

For parties are to be found at Kowloon Baltic States and Germany. Great! Grey Britain has been saying, "There is its help in bringing this about, Tong. Somehow Peak parties are "ALL CENTENARY”

no security without disarmament." France would get a guarantee of apt to get a little high spirited, To-day, under the export tuition of stance from Soviet Russin if duc perhaps to the height of the Melbourne has gone "all Contra- M. Barthou, Sir John has turned Germany were to cross the Franco-aira.

After all decorum must be pre- ary". John Citizen there now himself about. No longer is dis- German frontier. washes and shaves himself with

Sir John replied that he had no served if it does mean stuffing a Centenary

A од Boap, stands

the effect. He is now saying, ni-objection provided that the obliga-sock into a gramophone or socking Centenary bath mat, dries himself

Cheung Chau with a Centenary towel, puts on a most in so many words, "There is tions and guarantees were mutual.a tough on the cranial bone.

If Soviet Russia guarantees your Centenary shirt, Cantenary socks disarmament without security." frontier against Germany, he said Saturday and spent a gay time with and shoe, a suit of Centenary

M. Barthou-or as a wit has to M. Barthou, it must equally the missionaries and jelly bugs. tweed, and a Centenary tie. The nicknamed him in view of the guarantee Germany's against you. The only traille on the island con Patents Office, in the last few ubiquity of his numerous diploma M. Barthou, of course, agreed. He sists of a chair which I was too weeks, has received hundreds of tic journeyings, M. Partout went and all France, and all France's late to bag and a dog which would applications rights to the trade name, Contenary, for a multiplicity Britain's passive support for a present frontiers. It is Germany it is across which, I am told is due to London to try to get Great allies, are quite happy about their only pull with frequent stoppages. The island is longer round than of commodities. As John Citizen proposed East European mutual and her former allies which want

for

armament the cause and security

I went to

on.

progresses, he eats a Centenary assistance pact, generally called mutual the obligations and bone-queeze at Choung Chau!

to chango them. So, however to ple r squared. Fancy finding

The only electricity is used for

breakfast Food with an electro-after the similar plan aiready plated spoon branded with a map operative in the west-the East- may be on paper, they are in working a dynamo which gives a of Australia and the word "Can- cra Locarno, M. Barthou kot/effect an insurance for the statuettle light but it will be a long tenary. He then lights & Centen-more than he went for. Two days quo. ary cigarette or a pipe of Centenary after he had gone, Sir John dis- tobacco with a Centenary match.

great the Duke of Gloucester.

hair out. course, prospects of peace, said Sir John

the Con-

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time before, it grows big enough Having got thus far, and under- for a tramway or even an electric As his office he writes on Centenare closed in the House of Commons stood one another perfectly, the hair cut.

that the British ambassadors con-

However the inhabitants can paper and cats a Centenary birtuit corned had already taken activo two statesmen turned to the Bri with his morning and afternoon

tlah angle the question. Great make the short trip to Hongkong In the evening he taken steps in Berlin, Warsaw and Rome Britain's major interest la pence, for a tram ride and tear their own ten.

to give the plan a good send-off. John, after she has used Centenary

Sir John's blessing, of perfumery, powder, and hair pre- was purely Olympoan. He thought in effect, but supposing war came The new pact may improve the

The night life of the island is restricted to cats and burglars her Centenary or Air Race chocovided it involved no British parti- with her ses power and world-wide parations, to the pictures and buys the fden an excellent one-pro-in spite of it? Great Britain, though occasionally a honey. lates, after which he indulges in a cipation either in the benefits or ocean trade routes, wants to be

'moon' couple can be espted look- Centenary stimulant. There are obligations of the new pact. At sure that if or when she has to

ing at the lights of Hongkong Centenary motor tyres and lubrica the present time, no British Gov use her sen power in a European

and Macao and wishing what- ting oils, cough-mixtures, starch.

fully for the madding crowd. blue and clothes pegs. And Johnrnment, whether of the Loft, Citizen will unquestionably wave aght or Centre, could take any any rate the tacit approval of that) on the island is that if you have dispute, she shall do so with at The trouble about a honeymoon Centenary flag when lie goes to tinent of Europe without the United States.

freak commitments

other Anglo-Saxon sea power, the anything to hide there is no-one ito hide it from and if you do there certainty of being thrown out of The news that the N.R.A. is

So it was arranged that office. The mere suspicion that

if is no place, to hide it, so why in to be reorganised and simplified THE IMPORTANCE OF

M. Barthou was going to discuss M. Barthou is to get British sup: heck didn't you stay where you

port for the Eastern an Anglo-French alliance was

Locarno and WIS? by placing it on the same basis COMMAS

the guarantee to Franco from enough to bring 4 downpour of Soviet Russia, Great Britain must Chaung Chau but next time, I shall Anyway that's only my idea of as the Federal Government con-

anxious questions round Sir John's have French support for the Distake my News from central Europe re hond in the House of Commons.

own lemonade and stitutes a plain intimation that ports the recent suspension of two Although Great Britain will not armament. Convention, particular what the pince in really like. President Roosevelt does not papers because a journal printed take any fresh commitments, how for consultation between

ly that part of it which provides

Your faithful, from the same presses published & ever, she is not averso in certain signatories, if the Convention is intend to be deflected from his question mark Instead of a mark circumstances to letting other purpose, despite criticism from of exclamation. The error had a people share those she has taken in danger of being, or has been, within and without. He will no

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League Covenant, the Locarno Then the two statesmen turned Weather Bureau forward with his plans by the thirteenth stroke of a clock, dia- Furthermore, Mr. MacDonald's must be a willing partner to It.

to anything, Germany Dear Forecaster:

You're wrong again, indications of substantial sup- before. It is a good thing that in has undertaken, under the terms ing to change her frontiers. She

credited everything that had gone Government, if not the country. Germany is not at present agitat. huh!! port for his policies which are printing mistakes in punctuation of the draft Disarmament Conven- has even signed a nonaggression papers, "Fair to-day and for

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the question of equality of atatus. Minister дя Mr.

Simon persuaded M. disposed to give the President a Thomas! Derby, Lab?" These which really forms the background Barthou to make important con fair chance of making good, or,

full stops and commas, semicolons of the recent discussions between cessions to Germany In this direc and hyphens, and accuracy in gen Sir John Simon order onthou- tion-always supposing, of course, what amounts to the same thing, erat in regard to apparent triviali- although it has not been mention that, Germany comes into the are disinclined to permit any ties, are, in fact of greater ed in the public discussions..

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It is, naturally, not to be imagined that the Eastern Locarno (Continued on Page 4).

"You folks will have to excuse Myra; she always gets the giggles

Aunt Emma.

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A

B-Only one an-hic-half pounds? A. Yeah!

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