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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1935

NOTES OF THE DAY

DANGER SPOT.

GERMANY'S MAJORITY

OPPOSITION

BY. J. C. SEGRUE

B or even those who move about already.occurred in the Rhineland,

on their own among the kindliest where there is

Memol, that war-torn and in- trigue-ridden district of East Europe, coveted by Germany and virtually possessed by Lithuanin. is the latest danger spot in the ▶EAR-LED) visitors to Germany, Brief stoppages of work have news. The politics of that part

a big Catholic of the world is amongst the most involved in history. It hins seen of Continental peoples, will learn population, but in Berlin, Leipzig one coup d'etat after another, and nothing of the deep unrest at pre- and even in ono-time "Red Ham- the most recent threat of action sent spreading through nearly burg" there have been few signa comes from Chancellor Adolf Hit-every class. This ignorance will, of any desire of the workers to lor, the Nazi chief, who, search of course, be natural, but it should risk a quarrel with the Dictator- ing for a pretext by which to claim at least be a deterrent against ship. the return of the territory to hasty judgments. The secrets of Germany, has sounded a warning the padded cell that now is Ger- which Lithuania interprets as a many are not to be penetrated, on threat of war. To appreciate the a few days' visit. position there it is necessary to go back a little into history, firat

Of late the position in Germany

are now more marked.

The Very Idea!

SPEAKING OF PEAKS

Mutterings of a Madrian Who Went Topside

By Eddie Kelly, Germa VESTERDAY afternoon. "we had to visit "usick friend in an hospital up on

As for months past a big griev-the Peak. Wrapped in our ance is the enormous deductions Woollen muffler, great-over- coat, chest protector, gloves and flannel underwear, we did this thing.

meet Now, primarily to

the

from wages and salaries

In Germany, un immeasurably remembering that Lithuania has has changed considerably and cer-enter in the Great Britain

always fallen. virtually enveloped Memel intain broad features, blurred before, taxation as

proportionately on the workers, but a political garment of her own

us they got wonderful social bene- weaving. Lithuania, it will be re-

The minority behind the Nazi fits in return they accepted this called, was a Grand Duchy under

regime has declined but it is sub-position... the Russian Czarist regime, hav lus shared the fate of Poland, but stantial still. On an entirely free after the Bolshevik revolution the poll-not the sepulchre that Nazis Lithuanians declared their inde-call a plebiscite with a free Press wager of the millions for whom and the choice of candidates per-work has been found by the State, pendence. The dispute .with Poland, as to whether or not cer- 30 per cent. of the German tax deductions have mounted and people would give a "Hall Hitlert" deductions for political purposes vote. Of the remaining (roughly) are also made. 70 per cent of the Gernun people

: Real a distinct from nominal who are anti-Nazis or non-Nazle wages are deplorably low as a con- cellor Hitler's repudiation of the of my acquaintance who would be military entises of the Versailles in the non-taxable class in England has to pay just under a quarter of her income to State and Party.

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As a result we have decided that it's about time we come to light with our article on autumn. and winter fashions.

For a start-and what hus-

band doesn't get a start when his mistake starte buying her winter furs and foibles dresses will, in keeping with these hard times, be worn shorter this win- ter.

We are very glad to be able

skirts with the slits up the side have maddened us all summer. Offended our 'artistic nature, they have. You catch a glimpse of a decent bit of leg and you've got to follow it for three or four blocks until she reaches a windy street or the Praya bofore you see it again.

tain Lithuanian areas were to be left a part of that republic or were to be adopted by Poland, wak under tho consideration of the League of Nations when 15,000 goodly number applauded Chant sequence. A woman Civil Servant to report this, as those long Polish troops occupied Vilna, the old Lithuanian capital, and de-Treaty. clared it annexed. The League awarded Vilna to Poland in 1923. Lithuania and Poland have re-

The dilenima of non-Germans mained technically at war over

who hate Nazism while retaining

Here are the deductions exacted since. Memel, meanwhile, had

their affection for the German from a woman typist aged 30, em- borne no part in this affray. A

people is slight by comparison with ployed in the food trade, divorced, seaport on the Baltic, with a sur- rounding district area of 943 to conflict of conscience besetting without children, with is monthly nt this moment those millions of salary of 150 murks (£7 108, at square miles, it was detached from Germans who may be loosely des Germany under the Trenty of Ver-ribed as the opposition--National

par): sallies and placed under the con-

Monthly salary tax m. Poll tax 3m. trol of the Council of Ambassists. Socialists and Communists,

Old But, following the example Evangelicals, Roman Catholics and

Jews.

4m.

age pension contribution,

Sick fund um. (about). They recall how for nearly 15

Unemployment insurance 41⁄2 m. years, throughout Germany's great

Nazi Labour Front subscription experiment in democratic govern ment, antional humiliation followed Just over 2m.

it.

There ought to be a law against

The new autumn hats will be trimmed with vegetables. Beans, carrots, and pens and things. We are not sure about pumpkins.

Furthermore, you will be sorry to hear that our grandfather is suffering from influenza, poor old chap,

great-great-grand- muther anys she is doubtful ir she'll ever rear him.

Our

That's the curse of living in

Hongkong, despite the fact that

THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1935.

POLICE COURT REFORM C. Courtneidge. Walter Glynnc. There has latterly been con- Walter Clynne.siderable agitation at Home in Joe Ramsbottom opens a Barber's Shop Norman Evans.favour of Police Court reform, Norman Evans. based on a requirement that Joo Ramsbottom sells pills Benedictus (Mackenzie)

persons who exercise mugisterini .Beatrice Harrison.

functions should have received great training. The Beat-ice Harrison. Pro, T

majority of the Justices of the Cyril Smith (Pianofortel. Peace do not possess any such people of Memel are German at [vival of the doctrine that the com- prentice in the lithographie trade- | bo for Europeans when Mussolint

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dors. of the Poles at Vilna, Lithuanian irregulars rushed the city in 1923 and took control. The city and territory adjacent was handed over to Lithuania in the same year subject to certain conditions, which gave the use of the port to both Lithuania and Poland. Under the sovereignty of Lithuania Memel enjoys, legislative, judicial. administrative and financini auto- nomy, according to a convention signed by the great Powers. Ger- many maintains that these rights

been have

in- and ignored fringed by Lithuania and that the heart and require German protec-

tion. As a minority in Lithuania they have been evilly treated, the Nazis claim, and Germany is their champion.

on antional humlilation, and they In this way the typist's salary contrast that plight, with the preis reduced by about 308. a month, sent when Chancellor Hitler builds and her net weekly wage works out

swarm of submarines with the at 30s. blessing of the Mistress of the

A married Seas herself.

book woman in a binder's shop with an out-of-work What would happen to Germany husband (no dole) and one boy, as a Great Power should Hitler go? gels £1 88. a week (at par) net to Would his disappearance, with the keep herself and her husband-the collapse of Nazism, mean the re-boy carns 6s a week as an ap-

fort of, Germany's rivals is best

secured by keeping Germany werk? and of these sums a pound a week

goes in rent and other fixed ex-

the Telegraph. reported the other day that it was the healthiest place in the world for Europeans,

Which makes us believe that either the Telegraph chap was writ- ing with his tongue in his cheek, or had some inside information about how unhealthy Europe will gets going.

Anyway, if grandfather dies or

plenty of flowers in our garden to shovel on his grave. Our blue and pink hydrophobias are just a mass of bloom, and as for our chrys- tham .. chrisythum.. weli, they're asters, really; they're

In a vague way millions of Ger- penses before the family begins Lola gassed or something, we have nans ask these questions, and they food or clothes: feeling that Iitler does really stund Just over 10. a week is the sum between them and a renewed spell on which, after tax and party deduc af, national weakness may hold uptions and essential outgoings, integration of Nazism so safely to municipal relief scheme has to supcoming on beautifully. ur prevent altogether the dis annn I know employed under be predicted otherwise.

port himself, wife and child.

•

But are workers' budgets and

Nazis and anti-Nazis recognise that the key to the next develop- ments in Germany is to be found among the factory workers. The wage deductions, with the dis- presence of great dissitiafiction satisfaction-they-arause, likely). among the workers is disputed by after all to count in the shaping no one in Germany, but opinions of Germany's destiny 7- ns to its primary cause differ.

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Berlin. punishes with death.

Whatever its ground the unrest However, Chancellor Hitler has

of the workers causes uneasiness to declared that the Reich expects Lithuania, to treat her minorities the Nazi leaders und they recognise as well as Germany treats hers, that the day when strikes. break and in the same breath adds that out or street demonstrations are

We must send you a few cut- tings; also some chokes, to choko yourself with. Not No! Don't mention it. It's m pleasure. And, beside, they've got grubs on them, anyway. That's how things stand at pre- sont. However, we hope that this hot rum and lemon will fix us up in time to tell you the fairy tale to-morrow about the dear oki indy who thought that "British Fleet t Sucz" meant that the sailors were. visiting the Navy's girl friend nt a well known Port Snid establish-

Zoo's Your Old Man We notice that a morning contemporary is again squawk- ing about the absence of a 200 in Hongkong.

Which is to be?

Says the Travel Association Doubtless this month's foreign should take the matter up, because tourists in Berlin will feel them-a zoo would be a great asset for selves able to give the answer.

tourists.

He was only being polite to Hongkong people, really.

qualifiention, and the position is rendered even worse from the fact that many of the Magis- trates are old men who have long DA-1416 My lovely Celia (Arr. Lane Wilson)

since outlived their usefulness as GERMANY'S CLASS HOUSE Elisabeth Schumann.

But any stones of comment Pastorale (Arr. Lane Wilson) ...Elisabeth Schumann. members of the Bench. It is of

interest to note in this connec- thrown by Germany ut the DB-2414 La Ronde des lutins (Danco of the Goblins) (Op. 25) (Scherzo Fantastique) Bazzini)

tion that, the Magistrates' Act Lithuanians for their alleged ill- treatment of the supposedly pro- Yehudi Menuhin, recently passed by the Northern

German population of Memel, Moto Perpetuo (Perpetual Motion) Op. 11 (Paganini) Ireland Parliament in effect re-exposed Germany's glass house to Violin solo.. Yehudi Menuhin moves-from-the-lay-justices danger. While certain sections of the German-community were af every important judicial func fering from Nazi enthusiasm, tion, having thus taken the while the Jews were being perse- initiative in a reform which, ac- cuted and the Catholics subjected

The observer of the palpitating to indignities, Berlin was scarcely cording to a Home law weekly, in a position to criticise with any

German scene must often put this question to himself. will sooner or later, but in-effect the Lithuanian treatment of

The Nazis blame soaring prices mialtar of

Germany, fact and stationary wages whereas the evitably, he adopted in England. Memel. As

n innd of soldiers ascribe it to the training in town and countryside, In commenting on the subject, Lithuania stoutly denies that any "Marxista"

harsh treatment has been inflicted "terror." The impossiblity of of arms factories whose furnaces the journal refers to the great upon the Memelites, except in in-balancing the household budget is glow. by night and day, where ment. service rendered through the stances of proved conspiracy or the chief ground why few Nazis robust Nazis harry patient Jewry centuries by unpaid justices in

treason against the state, which are now to be found among work- and the State is in conflict with a great Christian Church, seems at the administration of law and Germany, the Lithuanians, reminders' wives.

times to be herself the plaything of forces driving her to great order in the United Kingdom.

power, or to destruction. but it goes on to point out that justice, in cases where a citizen is accused of some crime, is not best served "when trial, convic-in future there will be no persecu-held will be a grey one for the

tion of the Jews, providing they present regime. tion and punishment are in the

are good citizens and obey their hands of men untrained in law, betters. He thus removes himselí and possessing qualifications not from the danger of a charge of materially different from those hypocrisy, But he does not avoid the suspicion that Germany, in which are required in a jury,

view of the crisis elsewhere, is whose function, under the direc about to attempt to regain the ter tion of a trained Judge, is no ritory of Mémel which she lost by more than to acquit or to con- the Treaty of Versailles, and by vict." It is further stressed force if necessary. That is the that in days when the laws for Lithuanian suspicion. which is summary consideration were far rapidly crystalising into a simpler, less numerous and less grown fear. complicated than they are now, the judgments of laymen were tend to a more frequent recourse open to grave objection and to appeal. Trained Magistrates abuse, and the conclusion is would be much more ready to en- reached that the time has come courage appeals, which have the when the burden is too great for great advantage of removing laymen to hear. The subject is doubts and securing uniformity. one not without its interest for Until this reform is achieved, it Hongkong, where, whilst weis to be hoped that appeals will have no unpaid Magistrates, be encouraged both by the those who exercise magisterial Magistrates and the Judge. The functions are usually quite un-knowledge that appeals from the trained in law. Our Magistrates Magistrates to-day are easy and are drawn from the ranks of the inexpensive, and require no Cadet service, and it is well to trained assistance, if known, bear in mind that they have ever would somewhat mitigate the greater powers than the legally flaws of the present system. trained Stipendiary Magistrates provided Magistrates and police at Home,Granted that they encourage appeals. No-one who discharge their duties with an knows the rough and tumble of jobvious desire to see the ends of magisterial work could doubt justice met, they are naturally that frequent appeals would re- handicapped by their lack of lieve the really conscientious legal training. The facts point Magistrates of much anxiety. NEWEST AND DISTINCTIVE to the necessity of local reforms, Successful appents are no PATTERNS AND STYLES.

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the chief of which should be, to flection on Magistrates, for no confino magisterial appointments Magistrate can hope to be right to men who hayo received a legala hundred times out of every Itraining. For a time this would hundred.

"Now,..remember this is for today and this food is for to-morrow, in case we don't get back."

Actually, we've got enough peo ple here already to stock a fairly large-sized zoo.

Who wants to see Hons nad elephants and tigers when we've wild talpana, wild women and tame Kelly's cluttering up the *place?

Not that there's anything wrong with filling a zon with rent animals.

It's so much búnkum to say that it's cruelty to put them behind bara, Many a time wo've wished we could get behind the bar.

In a zoo the animals havon't a thing to worry about. They are fed and housed, and, the leopolit oven carried a spot on the hip.

The pelican has the biggest bill in this place, but does that worry him?

The camel was born with the hump. But he was born; not made. Therein lies the advantage. Monkeys, being almost human, delight to make fools of them... selves before an audienco. But who ever heard of a monkey worry- Ing where in the hell he was going to get the money to pay next month's chits?

A bear that sits up and bega for a bun and is hit on the snout with a peanut is no worse off than the husband who comes home and anys, "Hullo, darling!" and is ang- wered with "Humph!"

It is said that man descended from monkeys, but considering the fun monkeys have, it is apparent to the clothed, and impecunious en- looker that we have descended too far

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