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THE WARRIOR PATRIOT

AEROPLANE CIVILISES NEW GUINEA

By H. C. FENTON

For centuries, New Guinea, the building necessities and, of course, largest it one of the clutter of the gold won.

fascinating islands that once form- Prospectors began to move far-

The Very Idea!

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Compiled by Juliet-Lowell

. REVERSE CHARGES

Dear Doctor Colter:

Don't you think you might ro-

ed a solid link between Angirallather afield. It was not long before duce your charges for Nancy's and Asin, has been a No-Man's the Bulolo fell was opened up. chicken pox? it ought to make three stonį-hearted | some difference that she infected Land, in so far that the greater Eventually part of it was unknowa.

Mra. Royal J——.

| brothers, Queenslanders, managed | the whole school, Even now a very large part of to reach the foothills of Mount it is still a blank on the mig, and † Hagen, 200 miles by air from Láe, mant people have the vaguest iden ja journey on foot of more than where it is, although, administered | three months through country ot-1. under League of Nations Mandate (rupied by hostile” natives. The by the Australian Commonwealth mountain itself is 14,000 feet high. Government, half of it now belongs

to the Empire.

.

Is it really necessary to assume, as Mr. Rudyard Kipling does, that the pacifism of the English people and their disinclination to prepare" for war, is due to a loss of their ancient virility and their spirit of patriotic sacrifen? At the annual dinner of the Royal Society of St. George he suggested that the an- nihilation of nearly a million spirit- ed young Britons in the Great War had left the direction of British thought to others many of whom had shirked the War, and liked to foster the pacifist Idea that war was the greatest of evils and its sacrifice a fally. It is strange that the elimination of so many courage- ous men shauki have produced this dianstrous love of peace among the

Much of it is impenetrable jungle The natives in this "uncontrolled” English, wherens in Germany, ne-

and formidable mountain and radistelet had never seen white men cording to Mr. Kipling, her louses vine, albeit, of great beauty. Land before. They are veritably stone had no such effect; he asks us to communication between any two age people, much as the Australian | admire the cult which demands that

German citizens should be trained given points is a matter of ferlinusi aborigines of the fat outback, and packhorse and mule, and unreliable, very hostile. The brothers, how- to “enture as well as inflict punish; often fiercely hostile natives made ever, won their confidence, and soon ment." No doubt the warrior mind journeys into the interior hazard- began to trade with them through must regret the turning of swords us, it not frankly impossible, Into plowshares, and the heart of

New Guinea, however, has always If you are contemplating to prey must regeot any change in the attracted explorers. The fascina. become a motorist owner-if you law of the jungle. But we recallion of the unknown and the hust are desirous of a change--if you that Mr. Kipling and his friends of rent mineral wealth, na ured are going on home leave a word reproached England for her paci intrepid men to penetrate its jun from you to

fisms before the war, as now after;gles, often to die at the hands of and therefore this prean quality of OF

natives. But nobody, until about US

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THESDAY, JULY 2, 1935.

THE 40-HOUR WEEK

MAGNA CHARTA

the medium of cowrie shells.

Other prospectors followed. They are still following, breaking new ground. Large numbers acck permission to enter the "uncon trolled watersheds of the rivers, but because of the numbers and hostility of the natives, only those prospectors with adequate gulp ment, and in numbers sufficient to hai: make attack inndvisable are allowed

to penetrate these areas.

The method of penetration in this. Advance campa MPO first established and maintained by re- Then, suddenly, reports filtered Kular visifs from aeroplanes. The through to Australia, that some make sorties and try to win the administration's patrol ollicers adventurous prospectors had sur, confidence of the wild mountain vrede in making their Way-"Pi people and to promote understand- Edie Creek, about thirty miles in between them and the pros. a direct line from the roast, et Por

These natives, it is true, still fortnight's bazardus resent the advent and encroach- actually journey. There, it was said, they ment of the white man and at- |

rountry to an area now known 4

Magna Charta. England's prent Charter of Liberty, through its fluence on the outs of me at had found greld. critical times, has established it Other prospectora tried to follow tack him on every possible occasion. self as part

Not so very long ago, two proste of the Fabric of suit, but the place was an interes- British history; and now its place, sible, the transport of supplies smits to enter "uncontrolled" conn- pectors who had been refused per- therein is to be formally reengnised, kult, and the natives so treach-try, eluded the officials and passed At Runnymede, in the small churcherons, that

were feilly mo . They were immediately where the haron prayer before warned off.

aining King John's signature to

killed by natives, But gold was there, and gold is their charter some 720 years ngro, an irresistible magnet. It

of

they

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PM BETTING ON THE WIFE Gentfernena:

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MISS ROSE KNOWS

Public School 18. Dear Miss Rose:

Please excuse that my Sadie was late to-day. My wife had a baby this morning, and you know, Miss

Rose, how that is. cher. The Charter was largely a

Thankfully yours,

M. Cohen.

it is proposed to set up the arms of only a few months before the Brat Five separate patrols were then all those noblemen whe shored in acroplane made, its appearance ire sent out to capture the murderers, the great enterprise. The power-the soarch for the new Eldorado,¦ The fist was attacked and there No world agreement on the fut fulluence which Ma Charta Within a year aviation had opened i were several casualties, The ser-

has in historic times wielded over forty-hour week has been regel-the democratic, developnvent

up the Edic Creek goldfield,

and could not find their quarry, The first tight from the coast to which had gone into biding. The ed by the International Labour mankind has in fact rested chicily Wan, now the flourishing centre of third. more successful, succeeded | Conference in Geneva," although pon s mleonception The Chars the field, was made in April, 1927, in apprehending eight natives, but

a draft convention approving the depended on its being generally ae-

ter's potency as an ally of frondom | It took half an hour, compared with while moving off with them were.

a fortnight on foot. A rough and rambushed. The allicer in charge. idea in principle has been adopt-cepted as a democratic statement ing round, was made, maigns in six police and one servant foll ed. The problem is admittedly of the Fundamental equality of men. Bat it was of necessity on a slope. seriously wounded, and two of the one of considerable difficulty, in that to see in the Charter an early

But undern scholarship la relue and the machine had in alight up prisoners were killed by a slutwer

bill and take off dawuhill, irress (of arrows, A desperately organis view especially of the varying draft of the main tenets of the pertive of wind direction. Today, ed retreat followed, packs were dis- [standards of living in different | American Declaration of Indepaid- there are 21 aerodromes and hand-carded, and after a 20-hours forrel parts of the world. But the class document, fer it paid great Guinea. There are five air con- The fourth patrol set out to pantsh ing grounds in Australian Newmarch the party renched safety, fight for recognition of the pro-attention to securing privileges for panies, owing 25 aeroplanes, and the natives, but they had fled, posal continues, and eventually the nobility while mainly ignoring the rough camp where the handial Now, in the inesirable advance

the common man. But Dunkind on it will probably find general the whole bar net read the Charter cariously has become a civilized been established on the site and of original prospertars lived proof civilisation. n bast camp has receptance, just as the earpaigns; and magnificent have been the township of a thousand or more patrols are radiating from it. for the eight-hour day was won results of their misinterpretation. people, with its own shopy, hospital, bringing the people under control. ; after many years of sustained Yet even no a class document the electric light and wireless tel- Behind the vanguard of prost

Charter has much to effort. Advocates of the plan insisted on the sharing of power

tench. It phone.

pectors and patrol officers are the nissionaries who are equally un- urge that there can be no el to between Fulers and ruled, and has From the day of the first deru. welcome to the natives. As fe- POCO the present industrial crisis ex- made impossible in England for plane landing at Wan, the con-cently as three months ago a

ept by the reabsorption of the of methods of dictatorship. As a

mouny, ecnturies the establishment quest of No Man's Land of New Catholic brother was attacked and I am in jail for appearing on Guinen has gone ahead by leaps severely wounded by a tribe in the unemplayed, and they argue statement. of

the fundamental and bounds. Development in the Mount Hagen district. A trol the street clad only in knee pants, as I think it my inalienable right that the crisis is caused by objections to dictatorship it is still interior by means of the aeroplane immediately set out and rescued and duty to do, I have much law under-consumption

valuable, not only as a historical has been phenomenal. Last year him. resulting derment but as a living influence.

But only the aeruplane mundo from the diminution of the pur-

more than 800,000 miles were down it possible, in the first place, for business want attended. I will between the goldfields and Salama the missionary to penetrate this only comlintent fies up to 50%. chasing power of the great mass

and be the main seaports. Year remote and dangerous area; and honest, competent, and hunting If you learn of lawyers who are ly 12,000 passengers and 700 tons only the aeroplane made it possible work. I want six (6) of freight were carried. The for him to be rescued and taken

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