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STOLEN DOGS

1985

PROTECTION FAILED

IN BRITAINS

The Very Sex I

THE UNDYING - EGG

Dy 'Horatio Bogg, Conservative

PINCHING ourself for an

Aiden yesterday, a foki

It is common knowledge that many of the dogs atolen in Hong- kong find their way to Chinese shops which sell dog-flesh for

By SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR human consumption. Recently, as smart piece of work, the result of a starts three value the results aitherto entres of our export, trade 11038 THE Protectionists, Jaappoint- trade is improving of the thriving ablo Alsatians in one of these chops achieved by tarifs, are vociferously are the fruits of tariffs and quotas, who had just Anished a and were fortunately able to lay demanding higher tariffs like the "We moan also to use it, sald cabled item from Home, wande on them whilst they were still victim of the habit-forming drug the Chancellor, "for negotiations alive. One of the parties involved who demands ever larger doses of with foreign countries. Yet since called over to us that there in the theft of the animals got a his fatal medicine. Yet by every wo adopted Protection fifteen coun were great possibilities in a six-months. Bentonce when charged criterion by which the Protection trios have imposed or increased Chinese egg. at the Polico Court.. Of the three ists chose to invite judgment when quota restrictions on the import of dogs, one of which was worth at they introduced the Import Duties British goods and many more So there were, we told him least a thousand dollars, two were | Bil ́in 1932 Protection has tailed.. countries have increased their possibilitica which it was unwise to eventually restored to their owners "First of all," said the Chancellor tariffe against our exports. The explore if the egg had to be broken. na the result of an advertisement, of the Exchequer, "wo desire to boasted Trading Agreements have Let us not be misunderstood. but the other, a Ane-loolding bitch, correct the balance of payments." bean but narrow loopholes drilled As a devoted friend of things still awaite a calmant at the Dogs' But already our departure from the in these new and formidable ob- Chinese, we shall continue to do. Home. This case is but one of gold standard was making an auto-structions, the growth of which our fend their chief representative with many in which dogs have mysteri-matic correction--the futility of tariffs have not availed to prevent ardour, where the question of its ously disappeared. Only last week, expecting tariffs to increase ex-but have, on the contrary, stimulat honour and integrity is at stake. the carcass of a pointer, with its ports at a faster rate than imports en.

But the astronoinical figures in head completely severed from its is shown by a comparison between

which the life of a Chinese egg has body, was found in an empty flat the figures of our trade for January

een calculated, has opened up for In Kowloon, the thief being even to November of last year and then

pective inquiry. usa fascinating field for retros- tually caught and sout to prison, of the same months in the previous Numbers of stolen dogs are also year an increase of less than known to be taken out of the por cont. in exports and re-exporte, Colony and sold for human con- accompanied by an increase of not We are fully equipped for any sumption. Taking all the circum- quite 10 per cent. in imports.. nature of service.

stances into consideration, it is by no means easy trace missing visible trade is actually increasing animals, but owners should, in their while our invisible exports, such as own interest, immediately report to the earnings of our shipping and the police when their dogs dis- the interest on our foreign loans, appant. The Society for the Pre- find increasing obstacles In our vention of Crusity to Animals is tariffs and quotas, as our Austra working in close and beneficial collan debtors have been forcefully operation with the authorities in pointing out. all matters pertaining to the well- being of dumb creatures, and it would be most fitting If it now embarked on a definite campaign aimed at suppressing dog-stealing In the Colony.

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Thongkong Telegraph. COSTLIER CRUISERS

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 20, 1936.

the

So the "adverso balance" of

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Therefore, judged by every criterion chosen by Mr. Chamber lain himself, the polity of Pretec tion has falled.

It was characteristically romantic' of Bogg (who had been called an egg by readers of this column) that when placed thus side by side with his Chinese prototype, he should feel himself a youngster a mere stripling by comparison of years.

So it is that a reapoct (which he says he is ready to accord all per- ona who claim to be his superiors In years) has thereafter prevented Bogg from speaking Ill of the Chin- esc egg.

The only condition he imposes

"Last but not least." concluded Mr. Chamberlain, we are going to take the opportunity of offering acvantages to the Empire in return

A Chinese dinner we had once. for the advantages which they now eaten, had as one of the principal give or in the future may be die attractions, "Thousand Thousand

Yearb Egge". posed to give to us”—a forecast of Ottawa, that breeding ground of What extraordinary powers for tarifis, quotas and dangerous and survival does this not indicate a unedifying dissensions between the term which could lightly count the Mother Country and the Domi- years as days, and span the interval nions-

of probably conturios before the Sga appeared in their final form that night at the banquet table? the egg we were eating might have For all we know to the contrary, There are many powerful forces been the very one that old Con- Then we desire," went on the making for recovery from the fucius held up to the world of his Chancellor of the Exchequer, "to slump, and credit should be given tlines as something to be venerated fortify the finances of the country." to the Government for the restoran emblem of age and longevity? Or that same egg which could For the financial year ending last tion of financial confidence, for the March the yield of the new duties debt conversions, and for cheap have been Humpty Dumpty in the was £36, millions. This is an in- money. Still more credit should be thousand-year-old nursery rhyme, crease of only 4.38 per cent. in our given to the patience, courage, but was not? Collusion on the part of large National Revenue; and far from enterprise and ingenuity of the shipbuilding firms which practic-using it to "fortify our finances," British people--workmen, employ allymonopolisa United States the Government are frittering it ers, trade unionists, merchants, and Government contracts is the ex- away in subsidies which are in men and women in every kind of NO OCCASION FOR planation deduced by several mem-themselves a confession of the occupation, divided by many dif- bers of the Senate Munitions In-failure of their economic policy. ferences of abstract theory, but of ALARM

vestigating Committee for the inet "We propose," continued the one resolve, to overcome obstacles, that bid prices on naval cruisers Chancellor, "to transfer to our own whether created by foreign Govern World reaction to Germany's doubled between December, 1932, factories and our own fleids work ments and competitors or by our action in unilaterally denouncing and August, 1934, SAYS the which is now dono elsewhere." As own Government, and to make a

an regards the transfer of work to our success of their own job, the Versailles Treaty may be ex- Christian Science Monitor in pressed by saying that whilst outspoken editorial. Until recent fields, judgmont must be given on

ly

committee had the development is widely criti- circumstantial evidence on which ment which, far from increasing. only the figures of agricultural employ-

It is this spirit, and not the cised, very little real alarm has to baso this conclusion. A fell from 829,078 in 1981 to 799,800 complacency of Ministers, which when a practical research is being been occasioned. France and former shipbuilder now at outs in 1934. As regards our factories, foreign observers find so admirable. carried out, is that he be provided Russia would appear to be most with his colleagues told tales on employment is, of course, im- The astonishing and disquieting with a gas mask. seriously concerned over the them. "General knowledge" of proving here, as in other countries, thing is that in spite of all the turn of events, but there is their practice, he said, enabled him as the world gradually recovers conditions favourable to trade apparent a general tendency to to write out a correct list of the from the slump; but the people are revival and in spite of the un- ships each company would get ten not being told the truth by precedented power which we now developments, especially the outcome of the days before the bids were placed Ministers about the British share posacas of producing cheaply and in

with the Navy Department. An in world recovery.

vast quantities all the requirements visit of Sir John Simon and Mr. estimator from the New York

of civilized existence, the rate of Peter Freuchen Anthony Eden to Berlin. There Shipbuilding Corporation testified

recovery has been slowed down Metro Goldwyn Studios was a fear at first that this visit ho prepared dotalfed cost estimates A bad example of a half-truth throughout the prosent year and California, U. S. A. might have to be cancelled, but only on certain ships because he was Mr. Baldwin's recent speech at hardly any Impression has been Dear Mr. Freuchen

upon the figures of un- !

As a fellow Dane, I would enquiries made through tho was instructed to do so by his Bristol when he said that if you made appropriate channels have been superiors. The committee's star compared the figures of the indes employment during the last half of ask you for the loan of a thousand

witness was an assistant who had trial output of various countries the year.

dollars. This means nothing to met with a reply by the German sat in the office of the president during the Arst six months of 1034 The Profectionists tell us to im-you, a rich moving picture writer. Government of a willingness to of the New York company and with their output during the first prove, trade by increasing the But my trip back to Denmark will discuss the whole question of heard him discuss with heads of six months of 1928, eight important obstacles for it to overcome. If cost Three Hundred Twenty Five European security with the other companies over the telephone countries suffered substantial de tariffs have falled, the remedy is dollars and the balance Six Hun- British envoys. Britain's atti-which-ships each company would clines, whereas we had scored a more tariffs. They would repeat in dred-Seventy-Five dollars I need tude in the face of the German like to build and how the bids slight increase.

the sphere of economies the for extras. That was true, of course, but methods of Passchendaele. re-armament decision has been should be framed to achieve the

desired result. Hero was first-he omitted to mention. the other strictly correct.

It is not by organising scarcity A protest has hand testimony from a man who half of the truth-that there had and by reducing supply that the been registered at the flouting successfully evaded committee sub been many other increases in pro crisis can be overcome and employ of the Versailles Treaty, coupled poenas for a time and apparently duction beeldes our own, and thatment restored to our people. The with an enquiry whether the had no personal reason to accuse while the increase in our industrial object of policy should be to in Benson Smith & Co, Ltd. Druggists visit to Berlin, on the lines his former associates.

output in the period selected by him crease demand by encouraging in- originally laid down, were

was only 4.8 per cent, that of vestment, by reopening the chan-Honolulu, Hawall· Sweden had increased by over 7 per nels of trade, by stabilising ex- Dear Sir: cent., of Rumania by over 18 per changes (methods which are incon-

Received the co.d, package cent, of Denmark and Chile by sistent with the militant concep in good condition, and when I look over 23 per cent, and of Japan by tions of Protectionist economics), over the contents, and I found that over 49 per cent.

and by directing resources undor (1) pkge of Phonograph needles Idio shipping, grass-grown quays, Government leadership to the Im was empty, thinking that they all impoverished fishermen, bankrupt provement of our industrial, social loose in the box, but I found none of it loese, so I made up my mind ed areas"-at a time when world equipment.

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BUMB-BELLES LETTRES Compiled by Julist Lowell How. Economical

Now York City.

Yours,

Anton S

(signed) # You're Only Fooling

to see whether I made a mistake, but this is the very first time a rich people fooling to the poor person as I am, so I am claiming you about this, and I am forcing you to re- place another pkge of needles, and I hope you will satisfy to what I re- questing, I remalo,

Respectfully yours,

Josoph K

(signed)

desired. Only on receiving a WATCHING GENEVA definite assurance on the latter

Ever since their "Interested point has the British Govern-observers" brought back news from ment decided to send the Foreign Geneva in 1927 that disarmament Secretary and Mr. Eden to Barnegotiations were breaking down, is that Germany has agreed that the United States Government their traders, the collapse inte "depress- and educational organisation and to send you the empty box for you. lin. A point of vital importance the private, shipyards bave found the matters to be discussed with With a continually expanding naval best and almost only customer. the British delegates shall be a bullding programme, ship firms general settlement freely negoti have been saved from bankruptcy ated between Germany and the and put on an encouraging footing other Powers, and an agree-while industry in general was feel- ment regarding armamentsng one of the greatest slumps in which, in the case of Germany, draw hasty conclusions on the history. It would be unfair to is to replace the disarmament charges of collusion, originally provisions of the Versailles made by a disgruntled shipbuilder Treaty. This was the intention who has been unable to get any from the start, and although government contracts for his now Germany has taken matters into company. To avoid such criticism her own hands by deciding not the committee has spent more than to respect the treaty stipula-two weeks taking testimony on this tions, she still adheres to her the N.R.A. codes can be held re- point. It has been established that oft-repeated willingness to Responsible for only a small fraction gotiato an international agree of the Jump in prices. Any gaps ment for the regulation of in the evidence are due to failure, armaments. It is true that Dr.of witnesses to appear, conflicting Goebbels is credited with saying testimony and refusal of a former that henceforth Germany's de- president of the New York Ship- fences will be entrusted to Ger- himself to possible self-incrimina

building Corporation to expose many's own power, but it is tion. The committee la doing possible to place too literal an utmost to get at the facts. If the Its interpretation on this utterance. real answer is collusion or medi The dominant point is that tated evasion of government bid- official German pronouncements ding rules, then the $10,000 being all indicate an inclination to seek pent by the committee on this a general agreement with the phase of its investigation will be Powers concerned in stabiliaingerulear prices are deflated to their saved many times over when the European situation. It will, normal level however, not be possible to put Germany's sincerity in this

matter to the test until the Versailles Treaty, does some British envoys have had the what lessen the seriousness of opportunity of exploring the Germany's latest action, irregu whole position in their talks lar though it is. Meanwhile, It with Herr Hitler and his is to be hoped that nothing will colleagues. The mere fact that occur to further aggravate the the recent Anglo-French con- situation; certainly nothing in to Six Lines versations presupposed a "aria be gained by taking alarmist

tion, to Germany's advantage, of views of the position the disarmament clauses of the juring up remote

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