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A METAL WAR WITH

WITH AMERICA

BRITAIN

BLAMED

FOR SILVER

MUDDLE

JAMES CROMWELL

SEES IT ALL

Shanghai, Aug. 10,

British propaganda mo-

tivates Oriental attacks on MR. AND MRS, CROMWELL the

American silver-púr- chase policy, according to James H. writer on economic subjects

R. Cromwell, Prosperity Was

who is better known as the

husband of the former Doris Duke, "richest girl in the world".

Declaring that British policy Becks to thwart the American silver programme in order to perpetuate British financial con- trol of Indin, Cromwell gave his views on the economic forces affecting the Orient after first- hand observation of conditions in the Far East.

DUKHOBOR SECT WILL QUIT CANADA

PARADES IN NUDE

IN JUNGLES OF CHACO INSTEAD

WEARY of the religious

persecution which they charge to Canadian authori ties and have publicly resent- ed by parading in the nude,

Not Around 15,000 members of the Rus-

Corner

WORLD'S CRAZIEST

GET-RICH-QUICK

SCHEME FAILS

The

London, July 31.

sian sect of Dukhobors are planning to leave their Sas- katchewan homes for the wilds of Paraguayan Chaco.

Preparations for the MAXS migration have started in New York, where Dr. Enrique Bordenave, the Minister from Paraguny, has discussed plans. there with a delegation "of Duk- hobors-the advance guard

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scheme that ever captivated a the new colony.

Great Britain, he asserted, is using China as a shield in an nation-the "prosperity" chain Heartened by reports of the auc- Ice House Stroek. effort to discredit American at- letter movement that swept the ceas of the Mennonite experiment tempts to restore the 1926 level continent of America-has not in the Chaco, which has grown in of

British ten years to a community of 6,000, world commodity

with the prices. Bucceeded

and guaranteed complete religious Such restoration, he said, was public.

freedom by Paraguayan law, the the ultimate nim of America's

Hundreds received invitations

Dakhobors have decided to re" to take part in the simple and build in that silver policy.

land the life they alluring easy money proposition started thirty-five years aga in of Trans-Atlantic, origin which Canada, "In travelling through the great

¡offered the prospect of a 15.625 They are remnants of a seci ex- a modest in- [polled |_ from Russia about 1885. silver-using nations of the Orient."-to-1 return on he declared. "I have found a

Literally, the name means "Spirit Some went to Canada

Propaganda

vestment.

and others to Cyprus. Dukhobora have no stated places or ceremonies of worship, no holy days, and no ordained ministry.

nothorities have kept these people

strangely co-ordinated British pro The Sixpenny Prosperity League, Wrestlers," paganda directed ngainst the which proclaimed itself "the latest Ameriran endeavour to restore and and greatest league in the world" stabilise silver,

and the Prosperity Club "the latest, "Although the tactics of the jolliest, and most unique club in the Roosevelt Administration in buying world" was among the many chain They deny the divinity of Christ silver without simultaneously sell. letter fellowships which were and give mystical interpretation to ing gold are most regrettable, and launched by imitators of thethe Scriptures. although its methods of operation American pioneers of the new prosz| Frequent clashes with Canadian are clumsy and amateurish, it isperity. important to remember that the Circulars, headed by a list of alx before the public in recent years. fondamental objective is a restoranames and addresses informed the Their retaliation has taken the tion of the international commodity novitiate how he could hope to form of nude procession in public price structure which has been obtain a return of nearly £400 for places and has resulted in the ar- wrecked by the policies of the Bank the investment of sixpence,

rest of some of their leaders, of England.

All he had to do was to send av

Several months ago a represents- postal arder for sixpence to the tive of the Saskatchewan colony "Wily British Cousins" person whose nume was at the top conferred with Harry A. Due- Cromwell assailed the campaign

English, Paraguayan Consul In Then he omitted that name from Los Angeles, concerning the pro- of abuse which has greeted Ameri- the list, added his own at the bot-pects for settling in the Chaco. Can silver-buying operations, sar-tom, made five copies of the circu- donically observing that

The matter was referred to the "while inr and sent the shoots to five of vociferously protesting against the his friends "who are willing to con- the legation there, and a decision Paraguayan Government through 'outrage being committed upon tinue the chain of prosperity." helpless China, our wily British

renched to afford the future im- The delightful sequel is sum- cousins who ignored Chinese pro- marised in this paragraph in the migrants the advantages of an afea tests when their own polley was circular of the Sixpenny Prosperity Paraguay and Bolivia are strug far from the war Zone where destroying the purchasing power League.

of silver, are now losing no oppor- tunity to make an opposite condi- tion unbearable."

he

of the list.

- A

total

"By the time your name is at gling for mastery of the untamed

wilderness. the top of the lat t will have appeared in so many lists that Dr. Bordenave said his Govern- As examples of what

through multiplication you willment would, welcome the peaceful termed the subversive British

have received 15,625 replies, invasion of the Dukhobore, just as Influence he cited ""the heavy

ench with a prosperity aixpence it did the Mennonites. and wholly unnecessary ship

They see in the Chaco, he said, an amounting to ments of silver from China by £390/12/6.

opportunity to cultivate the fruits potent British-Oriental banking

The originator of the scheme and vegetables which comprise their interests and the recent sus-was assured of this handsome re-

entire diet.

land would be purchased piciously peculiar manipulation turn if 19,530 persons (the

The on the London silver market." 15,625 who send him sixpences ranging from 2 to 3 dollars an acre. private interests at prices "The Bank of England", Crom- well stated, "seems determined to plus those in the intermediate The Dukhobora are said to have maintain a minus-1914 level of stages) could be found who were world commodity prices, and its willing to continue his chain of agents and propagandists, by using prosperity. China as a shield, are attempting

But how many more participants

from

arrived thirty-five years ago in Canada owning nothing but the ragged clothes they wore, and now

would go with them to Paraguay, they claim aggregate cash assets of more than £2,000,000. This money

The Government there, In addi-

to side-track the American silver must be found if the 15,625 who policy before its success can break contributed to. the originator's the, British financial strangle-hold prosperity are themselves to reap tion to religious liberty, guarantees upon India and restore prices to a their reward? 1926 level".

Placing the blame for world- wide deflation squarely on Britain, Cromwell concluded his expression of economic opinion with the re-

Marki

The circular does not go into foreign settlers and their children exemption from military service the mathematics of the ques-and freedom from taxation for ten tlon, but the answer is 305,156,-years. 350 nearly

times the seven entire population of the British Jales, which is about 45,000,000, "Because of the density of the

Jung Collyer, the Blm actress, has The 306 million would in turn prevalling British smoke-screen it have to seems fitting at this time to recall to continge the chain of prosperity July 1931 to Stuart Erwin, also a find about 0,000,000,000 given birth to a daughter, says Reuter from Hollywood. She was married in who precipitated the calamity and unfortunately the population noted film actor, at Yuma, Arizona. which America is seeking to re- of the world is only two thousand The couple already have a two-year- lieve". United Press.

millions.

Loid son." June Collyer is. 27.

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DUZZEM

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS:

30

ACROSS

1 This historic Sanction may be *

"regarded as a grim paėli

Ď Singular

comedy.

words

musical

Although you may find it vile out, sur

survive: that's good advice.

10 The scene of auction at the sale.

11. An island.

12 These beasts always carry their

mother.

19 Where one may get all the fun.

Fine, isn't it'

16 The navigator's friend. 18 A likely place 17 Opera by Massonet.

20 Hoarding shows them up,

Central America. 22 Fate.

for a stop in

The building where in Webster's "Royal Ashes keep their Court."

24 I make an offer for the same

place. It belongs

to the side, right enough, but there's a real mix up before stumps are drawn.

28 it

20 Don't waste time over this clue,

It may be passed over lightly.

30 Surrounded by coarse grass.

31 It helps to inspire the crooner.

DOWN

1 Measures nothing in shells.

2 Disease more common in enttie

than in man.

3 Describes a certain gallant or an

old clipper, perhaps.

4 A low fellow's revings for fruit.

5 Speech impediment.

6 Enjoys a favourite book once

more, in which

BUT, DUZZ,TH' WIN-. DOW WAS INSURED!

readers

arc

Immersed.

Tel 24048.

7 Includes the company before the

politician gets up.

Break out, perhaps rashly.

14 This may be 200 yards, or any

number of wordle,

15 Plenty of rope is nothing to a

girl nowadays.

16 Tables.

18 Describes a Devon dainty.

19 Cripples

accident,

a horse, but not by

120 The newspaperman's urge.

21 Take me back and go round the

bar to find the bar.

25 Do It strivers?

pedestrians?

or

da

the

26 Plend so that light may be seen. 27 A point about the moon that all

inny observe.

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