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TUESDAY, OCT. 16, 1934..

CHINA'S SILVER DECISION

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TUESDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

YEAR OF PROGRESS.

OCTOBER 16, 1934.

THE RE-BIRTH OF GERMAN NATION

By G. WARD PRICE

It would surely be no wild pre- diction to say that before another ben years have elapsed-barring accidents--the world will be com plately linked by a system of air

"for transportation,

passengers, mail and high class freight; that

aiders her greatest riches to over several square miles of a the aviation exports will span the be her children. And such chil-superb country of rolling, green,

re

IKE Cornelia, Germany con-renttered in groups of small tonts

The Very Idea!

ARE THERE FLIES ON YOU?

By George

THE whole question," said Cruikshank im-

dren! What has become of the fir-crowned hills and shining Inkenpressively "is one of imports a great open space has been pre- and exports. The only way pared, called the "Thingplatz." to get a true value for the

widest occana and cross the highest mountains and mote deserts with little more risk pre-war German boy with pale face than was entailed a few years ago and spectacles, whom failure in an In dying the Channel. Yesterday examination 'sometimes drove to wo learned, from Washington, that suicide? American aviation engineers, head-

At one end the ground rises to a

background of dark fir treca. In dollar...."

front of this wood a black board-

·Ho paused a moment while we TC* ing has been erected, flanked by dexterously. wielded the fly

a

ed by Colonel Charles Lindbergh, There is nothing" remotely.

trans- were laying plans for a Pacific service. That development sembling that type among the tall wooden pillars from the tops/swatter. is no longer remote. It-te- just as 6,000 boys in his great liter of which red fire-cressets flame "As I was saying" continued feasible as the air route across the Youth" camp in the Bavarian Impressively when the boys, squat- Cruikshank flicking a couple of the German operators; or the or doing their physical exercises gather here at the end of their problem that has been vexing the South Atlantic, already proven by Highlands. Playing their games ting close-packed on the ground, dead flics from his jam roll, "that

is the only true solution to England-Australia service, now in with nothing but a black bathing day's amusements.

houses for many years. Until we And standing heads of the world's financial

stop buzzing around.

Cruikshank ducked adroitly as the swatter came into action again. An unpleasant stain on the wall WE ARE BORN TO DIE FOR behind him suggested that our

GERMANY!

right hand. had not yet lost Ita cunning.

a thriving infancy. The air race slip on their sunburnt bodies, they out in high reiler against the

from London to Melbourne on Oc-

tober 20 will give the world a bit look like future Olympic athletes.great blackboard is this motto, of information as to the modern No country in the world could pro-carved In white letters ten feet plane's potentialities. This year, duco a sturdier, healthier, happier. long: and the next, will in all pro-handsomer set of lads-yet those bability, he banner periods in the form only one-thousandth part of progress of aviation.

the 6,000,000 boys and girls now enrolled in the Hitler Youth Move- ment, which two years ago had but

•

WHERE DOES IT LEAD?

But, at the same time that dar-20,000 members.. ing men, and women, go winging—

down across the south of Europe,

over the Holy Land, roaring high It is a mistaken Idea that the above the barron, scarred desert

Flooded with searchlights from the back of the wide enclosure, those worda gleam through the darkness, stamping themselves night after night upon the minds of 6,000 lads for whom this camp will

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"Go on," we urged signalling over the wall of dend Alen around us for a reinforcement of“ tea.

Cruikshank, removed something

along the Red Sea coasts, down, Nazi regime is concerned only with

which had fallen between his nock and collar. Ile, soemed a little dia-'. down to the Indian Ocean, their politics, and that its sole activities be a lifelong vivid memory.

traught but pale and determined. ahadows glancing across the shark- are marching, 'saluting, and beat-

"Until we stop buzzing around, infeated scas of Australasia, anding people up. The Germans of to- se to Melbourne--at the same time day, with Hitler as symbol, stand- Is an odd grimncas about the pro-rate which will be acceptable to all "To die for Germany!" There or rather flying around, a static other men, in every nation, are ard, and rallying paint, are under-clamation of that ideal among not be arrived at.? striving to bring to a state 01 higher perfection air weapons of taking a systematic transformation these surroundings of glorious

war.

the allvar standard countries can-

It does not matter that their of their national character. In-scenery and youthful high spirits. Cruikshank reached out for his intentions may be honourable, that dividual ambition is to give placeYet it is the key to the intense jam roll but thought better of It. they are merely striving to devise to the idea of being a unit in a crusading zeal with which this He made for the lemon curd "at a means by which they can protect mighty State. Be strong-for Youth Movement is being carried the same time as a largo blue their homes and their heritage. Germany! Develop your mind on. At the belt of each "Hitler bottle-nose dived from the celling They are working for war. And and body so that you may serve Youth" hangs a dagger. It looks into the delicious meas.

Cruikshank was quick, the fly As long as the preparation contin- your country better! These are like the ordinary camping-knife

-

uea, so long will there be fear, and the ideals that the Nazi leaders are that Boy Scouts wear throughout was lightning but we ware not far danger of war. One cannot forget impressing upon their country's the world. But draw one from its behind. As Cruikshank drow back that though this air race to Mel- youth.

sheath and you will find engraved his hand with a gasp we saw the bourne may prove the hardihood

the upon

binde of plots and the efficiency of

the words: fly deeply embedded in a tomb of flying metal for commercial pur-

note of preparation for some great "BLOOD AND HONOUR!" The lemon curd. poses, it will demonstrate at the

national ordeal runs right through same time how not even su isolated a continent as Australia is safe from the shadow out of the sky. the terror of aerial invasion.

KEEPING PACE

guarantee

t

Cruikshank picked up an apple and taking careful aim caught the fly fall between the eyes, It sank down to its last rest without a moan..

It was all over in a second, Tho fly swatter rose and fell.

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DUMB BELLES LETTRES.

..

China's decision to place an expert tax on silver, with a view to offsetting the effects of the artificial rise in the price of the

School this autumn is to be for metal, does not appear likely

five days a week only; Saturday to have the disturbing

will be given up to the Hitler the movement. The lectures given and Cruikshank, shaken but stub

The boy arrived with fresh caken sequences which were feared in

Youth Movement, and Sunday will to the boys on the Thingplatz are born, continued with the work of certain quarters. What is more,

be left as the day for family-life, not directed against any foreign financial reconstruction. Pressure is being brought to bear country. In particular. They deal serious doubts are expressed in

upon employers to make Saturday with the glories of Germany's past, he resumed and stopped short. "While rates are below parity," foreign banking circles as to the

a (ree day for all boys and girls on but their theme, implied if not ex-The fly was emerging slowly from. wisdom of the action in China's

their staffs up to the age of 18. No pressed, is that Germany became the lemon curd. own interest. It is understand- For one's peace of mind it is wonder the young people of Ger- great by military prowess, and that

are clamouring to able that, from the standpoint necessary to know that the war- many

join! her future greatness will be in of her export trade, China should prevention forces are keeping pace Next summer this great camp of proportion to her national strength. feel concerned at the continued which, in the fuure, would make the nature of a rchenrhal, is to be speaker. "Youth passes: wealth with the development of industries South German boys, which is in "Most things disappear," said one rise in silver prices, but, at the armed conflict too horrible to con- reproduced in every one of the 22 vanishes: the only thing that never same time, there are compensat- template. Unfortunately, there is "Youth Districts" into which the dies is the heroic fame of dend ing factors, notably an increase no such reassurance. Or, if there country has been divided Except comrades." And ho added: "You Cruikshank wiped his hands with In her purchasing power and exists some water-tight guarantee for the neatness and discipline were born as Germana; you must satisfaction. It was clear that alt considerable relief in the burden among the powers, the public has natural to the German character, live as fighters; you must die aan was now well.. of foreign loan obligations. The yet to hear of it. It would seem, there is nothing militarist about herons: remember those who fell! "Look at America! Buying all- point suggests itself that on the contrary, that the world is it, although the handbooks with fighting for the Nazi Revolution," ver all the time! Why? There are better way of correcting the ad- ing to treaties, and pacts and tain a good deal of instruction of following the same old road, lead which the boya are provided 'con-

no-llies-on-America!" verse trade balance might have

Cruikshank repented in thrilling It is a military character-reconnals- On either side the banners of the accents: "There are no flies on agreementa. been found than the method of weary road, and full of pitfalls, annce, taking cover, trench-digg various detachments represented in America."" deliberately placing restrictions and there are acme who questioning, and small-calibre rifle shoot the camp gleamed crimson in the on her own currency. However, whether it is worth the walking. Ing. The leaders are all men in floodlight.

Then we saw what he was the Nanking Government has

the twenties. They are not allowed a fanfare before every haran with a disgusting abdomen and Boy-trumpeters sound.. driving at. A husky looking fly chosen to adopt this course, "IF I WERE DICTATOR"

ed to drink or smoke: they display xuc, followed by a tucket beaten on halts all down its legs had alighted which, as a domestic measure,

a burning zeal. for the idea that long, brightly painted medieval

Among Some prominent men in Great somewhere

these brown side-dryms, What she is just as much entitled to Britain have been asked what they battalions of healthy boys will be effect of such propoganda, repeat-

on his car. will be the do as the United States is to would do if they were dictators, found the future Leader of Gered a thousand-fold, on the youth of boost silver for her own pur and their ideas on the subject. bave many.

an entire nation? What other The fly fell and remained fallen. poses. Opinion, generally seems been published. Their. views on

country is thus infusing the spirit Cruikshank fell and rose. Wo to be that the new tax will cause how they would remould "this

and imagination of its young didn't see any more as we rose and silver to appreciate further, in sorry Scheme of things entire Patriotism, not party politics, people with ideals of burning nared. which event it will be interest- nearer to the Heart's Desire" are they tell me, is their principle. It triatism. Those who think of the: Fortunately the dollar is atl}} ing to see

probably emblematic of their is patriotism of a kind. however, Nazi regime as a passing political rising. to what extent the estimate of what is wrong with which will make the next genera phenomenon have not reckoned Nanking Government will be society. Four of the men who tion of Germans a must formidable with the permanence of the im- able to enforce its policy. have written on the subject are people. Here is an example of it:pression that it is making on the Obviously, the inducements to Lord Raglan, Lord Dunsany, Pro In the heart of the camp-which is responsive mind of German youth, amuggle silver out of the country fessor Jullan Huxley and Mr. will increase na the price ad- John Ervine. The latter in wholly vances. Hongkong's interest in critical of other would-be dictators, the question is considerable. Cripps, and says, if he were an such as M. Stalin and Sir Stafford We have always been told that autoernt, he would use his power this Colony is, economically, to bring back liberty to the tum- linked with China; indeed, this mon people. Professor Huxley was the chief argument of the says he would encourage "intellec anti-stabilisationists at the time tual gentlemanliness;”, of the Currency's Commission's visit four years ago. For this reason, it has been argued that currency, except it be that the material effect on Hongkong's any marked disparity between resultant rise in silver prices, China's currency and our own, which is forecast, may be reflect- especially if that disparity placed ed in a higher aterling value for Hongkong's currency at a pre- our dollar. If that is the out- mium, would be disastrous for come, and if our currency is to the Colony's trade. How, there be actually based on the price of fore, is the Government likely to silver, there regard any tendency in that di- possibility of the Colony's cur- a distinct rection arising from a possible rency becoming widely divorced further rise in silver prices? from China'a level. Actually, it Strictly speaking, Hongkong's is China, and not Hongkong, currency is based on silver, but, which has forsaken the silver the Currency Commission haste, If viewing the situation sa pointed out, the business com- it now is, the arguments against | munity of the Colony many stabilisation of the Colony's cur years ago decided to disregard rency are robbed of much of the trac legal tender, the silver their point now that the link dollar, and established a conven- with China has gone. If we are tional one of their own, namely, to remain independent of China, the banknote. It is this cir it would seem far preferable cumstance which enables local that we be independent on a bankers to assert that no need stable basis than on one which for the protection of our cur- is able to be constantly disturb roney arises, inasmuch as the ed by changing silver prices. dollar is used only for small That is how the layman might' transactions and the note issue interpret the position, although is always adequately backed. in a subject of so many com- Vlowed thus, there appears no plicating factors he would reason for thinking that the naturally hesitate to be too Nanking order will have any dogmatic in his conclusions.

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