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WEDNESDAY

NOTES OF THE DAY

STOLEN DOGS

MARCH

PROTECTION FAILED IN BRITAIN

The Very Idea!

THE UNDYING EGG By. Horatio Bogg, Conneryative

PINCHING ourself for an

So there woro, we told him

Let us not be, misunderstood. As a devoted friend of things Chinese, we shall continue to do... ardour, where the question of its Lond their chief representative with honour and integrity is at stake. But the astronomical Ogures in which the life of a Chiness ogg has been calculated, has opened up for us a fascinating field for retros. pective Inquiry

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

By SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR human consumption. Recently, as the result of a smart plece of work, HE Protectionists, disappoint trade is improving of the thriving

idea yesterday, a foki the pollee came across three valu- ad by the results hitherto centres of our export trade these able Alsatians in one of these shops achieved by tariffs, are vociferously are the fruits of tariffs and quotas who had just finished a and were fortunately able to lay demanding higher tariffa ilke the "We menn also to use it said cabled. .item from Home, hands

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 big fatal medicine. Yet by every we adopted Protection Afteen coun- were great possibilities in a six-months sentence when charged criterion by which the Protection- tries have imposed or increased Chinese egg. at the Police Court. Of the threo 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 possibilities which it was unwise to least a thousand dollars, two were Bill in 1932 Protection has failed. countries have Increased their eventually restored to their owners

"First of all," said the Chancellor tarlifs against our exports. The explore if the egg had to be broken. as the result of an advertisement, of the Exchequer, "wo desire to boasted Trading Agreements have but the other, a fine-looking bitch, correct the balance of, payments." been but narrow loopholes drilled still awaits a claimant at the Dogs But already our departure from the in these new and formidable ob- Home This case is but one of gold standard was making an auto-structions, the growth of which our many in which dogs have mysteri- matic correction-the futility of tariffs have not availed to prevent ously disappeared. Only last wack, expecting tariffs to Increase ex-but have, on the contrary, stimulat the carcasa of a pointer, with its ports at a faster rate than imports ed. head completely sovered from its Is shown by a comparison between body, was found in an empty flat the figures of our trade for January "Last but not least," concluded in Kowloon, the thief being even to November of last year and those Mr. Chamberlain, "we are going to tually caught and sent to prison of the same months in the previous take the opportunity of offering Numbers of stolen dogs are also year an increase of less than

advantages to the Empire in return known to be taken out of the por cont. in exports and re-exports, for the advantages which they now eaten, had as one of the principal Colony and sold for human con- accompanied by an increase of not give or in the future may be disattractions, "Thousand Thousand

Yours Eggs". We are fully equipped for any sumption. Taking all the circum- quite 10 per cent. in imports.

posed to give to s"a forecast of rature of service.

stances into consideration, it is by So the adverso balanco" of Ottawa, that breeding ground of What extraordinary powers for no means easy to trace missing visible trade is actually increasing tarlife, quotas and dangerous and survival does this not indicate animals, but owners should, in their while our invisible exports, such as unedifying dissensions between the term which could lightly count the own interest, immediately report to the earnings of our shipping and Mother Country and the Domi-year as days, and span the interval of probably centuries before the the police when their dogs dis- the interest on our foreign loans,

nions. appear. The Society for the Pre-find increasing obstacles in our vention of Cruelty to Animals is tariffs and quotas, as our Austra-criterion chosen by Mr. Chamber-that night at the banquet table?.

Therefore, judged by every C888 appeared in their final form working in close and beneficial colian debtors have been forcefully lain himself, the polley of Protec the egg we were eating might have For all we know to the contrary, operation with the authorities in pointing out. all matters pertaining to the well-

bean the very one that old Con- being of dumb creatures, and It would be most fitting if it now

fucius held up to the world of his embarked on a definite campaign

times as something to be venerated an emblem of age and longevity? aimed at suppressing. dog-atealing

Or that same egg which could, In the Colony,

have been Humpty Dumpty. In the thousand-year-old nursery rhyme,, but was not?

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

per-

So it is that a respect. (which he says he is ready to accord all Pons who claim to be his superiors in yours) has thereafter prevented | Bogg from speaking ill of the Chin-

esc egg.

The only condition he impos68

tion has failed.

There are many powerful forces "Then we desire," went on the making for recovery from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, "to slump, and credit should be given fortify the finances of the country." to the Government for the restora For the Bnancial year ending last tion of financial confidence, for the March the yield of the new duties debt conversions, and for cheap was £36 millions. This is an in-money. Still more credit should be crease of only 4.83 per cent. in our given to the patience, courage, Collusion on the part of large National Revenue; and far from enterprise and ingenuity of the shipbuilding firms which practie using it to "fortify our finances," British people workmen, employ ally monopoliao United States the Government are frittering it ers, trade unionists, merchants, and are in men and women in every kind of Government contracts is the ex-away in subsidies which

confession of the occupation, divided by many dif- NO OCCASION FOR planation dcduced by several mem- themselves

ferences of abstract theory, but of bers of the Senata Munitions In- failure of their economie policy. ALARM

vestigating Committee for the fact "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, 1982, factories and our own fields work ments and competitors or by our action in unilaterally denouncing and August, 1934, Bays the which is now done 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, judgment must be given on

the ly

only the figures of agricultural employ. the development is widely criti- circumstantial evidence on which ment which, far from increasing, It is this spirit, and not the cised, very little real alarm has to bano this conclusion. A fell from 829,078 in 1931 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 moat 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 to trado turn of events, but there is write out a correct list of the from the slump; but the people are/rovival and in spite of the un-

their practice, he said, enabled him as the world gradually recoverá conditions favourable

BUMB-BELLES LETTRES apparent a general tendency to

by precedented power which we now Compiled by Juliet Labell ships each company would get ten not being told the truth awnit further

How Economical developments, especially the outcome of the days before the bids were placed Ministore about the British share possess of producing cheaply and in

with the Navy Department. An in world recovery.

vast quantities all the requirements

New York City. visit of Sir John Simon and Mr. estimator from the New York

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

recovery has been slowed down Motro Goldwyn Studios was a fear at first that this visit he prepared detailed cost estimates A bad example of a half-truth throughout the present 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:

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

witness was an assistant who had trial outpat 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 first six months of 1994 The Protectionists 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 failed, the remedy is dollars and the balance Six Hun- British envoya. Britain's atti- which ships each company would clines, whereas we had scored a more tariifs. They would repeat in dred Seventy Five dollars I need

like to build and how the bids slight increase. tude in the face of the German should be framed to achieve the

of the sphere economics the for extras. That was true, of course, but methods of Passchendaelo.

Yours, was first-ho omitted to mention the other It is not by organising scarcity strictly correct. 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 besides our own, and that ment restored to our people. The with an enquiry whether the had no personal reason to accuse while the increase in our industrial object of polley should be to in visit to Berlin, on the lines his former associates.

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

was only 4.0 per cent., that of vestment, by reopening the chan- Sweden had increased by over 7 per pels of trade, by stabilising ex- desired. Only on receiving a

WATCHING GENEVA

Received the cod. package cent, of Bumanla by over 16 per changes (methods which are. Incon- definite assurance on the latter

Ever since their "interested cent, of Denmark and Chile by sistent with the militant concep in good condition, and when I look point has the British Govern- observers" brought back news from over 23 per cent, and of Japan by tions of Protectionist economics), over the contents, and I found that ment decided to send the Foreign Geneva In 1927 that disarmament over 40 per cent.

and by directing resources under (1) pkge of Phonograph needles Secretary and Mr. Eden to Ber- negotiations were breaking down,

Idle shipping, grass-grown quays, Government leadership to the im was empty, thinking that they all lin. A point of vital importance the United States Government their traders, the collapse into "depress and educational organisation and of it loose, so I made up my mind the private shipyards have found Impoverished fishermen, bankrupt provement of our industrial, social loose in the box, but I found none is that Germany has agreed that hest and almost only customer, ed areas at a time when world equipment. the matters to be discussed with with a continually expanding naval the British delegates shall be a building 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 agreeing one of the greatest slumps In while Industry in general was feel- ment regarding armaments which, in the case of Germany, draw hasty conclusions:

history It would be unfair to is to replace the disarmament charges of collaston, 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 new 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 point. It has been established that two weeks taking testimony on this tions, she still adheres, to her the N.R.A, codes can be held re oft-repeated willingness to nesponsible.for only a small fraction gotiate 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 refusat of a former that henceforth Germany's de prealdent of the New York Ship- building Corporation to expose fences will be entrusted to Ger- himself to possible, self-incriming- many's own power, but it is tion. The committee is doing its possible to place too literal an utmost to get at the facts. If the interpretation on this utterance. real answer is collusion, or medi- The dominant point is that tated evasion of government bld- official German pronouncements ding rules, then the $10,000 being all indicate an inclination to seek pent by the committes on this a general agreement with the saved many times over when phase of its investigation will be Powers concerned in stabilising crulsor prices are deflated to their the European situation. It will, normal level however, not be possible to put Germany's sincerity in this

were

on

the

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 is to versations presupposed a aria be gained by taking alarm tion to Germany's advantage, of views of the position, or by the disarmam at clauses of the juring up remote possibilt

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