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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937.

RAILWAY SAFETY PROBLEM

Full inquiry into the disas- trous fire which broke out on a train bound from Kowloon to Canton on Saturday, involving the loss of close on eighty lives, is to be made in the near future

They feel the drama of the hour. An essential capacity, of course, in politicians. But, in any case, there is to-day à sur- feit of things to charge the in- agination, to beckon and balle the mind.

The new sension has opened in a world which is on the jump. The European sense of crisis- values is sharpened to a fine point. Heavy curtains enwrap the future. Westminster has the oppressiveness of an ante- chamber where a people awaits audience with its fate. The air. is perturbed, vibrates with nameless importance.

Resisting The Years

OUTWARDLY little is

altered. More room

I

As I See It...

The House pricks up its cars when Dr. Dalton (top left), "the next

leader of Socialism, booms at it decisive and are being applied in of defence tasks, Mr. Churchill ́

The others in this picture are Per a salutary rhythm. Cater's "young men to twatch."

They are: Left, Major Ralph Rapier;

below, Mr. Duncan Sandys.

sits like a shadow-factory. top right, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd; and. out our being reminded of the to

Hardly a speech goes by with- He has done all that is possible has been made for the world's

tumultuous moods of the world. abstruse workings of our poli- a man relegated, by the Ambassadors, who take the steep hillside and flings the mud Mr. Baldwin took a coat-lapel in ties, to elder statesmanship. He road to Parliament as a matter from his boots on a bluff high cach hand the other night, paced has used his knowledge and his at Canton, where officials are of habit these days. They road. Wit has reappeared. as though on the hearth-rug of fears to excite the Government now awaiting the instructions typify the listening earth. More There are shafts of the old his study, took the House into to the most extreme exertions.

room has been made for the gaiety which was so devastating his confidence, as it were, on the of the Ministry of Railways in public, symbolising

Rome called Cincinnatus from the an anxious in debate.

queation of democracy and the plough, Will Mr. Churchill be called Nanking. The tragedy and the Britain.

Mr. W. S. Morrison, Mr. iron idealism of Left and Right from his books? circumstances surrounding it On the floor of the House of Agriculture, is one of the most

Elliot's successor as Minister of dictatorships.

Mr. Lloyd George dominates suggest the desirability of every Commons all seems curiously discussed men in the House, reached the conclusion that, in a It has come to just that, and Mr. Baldwin hnd obviously the House whenever he speaks. possible step being taken to pre-preservative of politicians, who Minister. Time was

unchanged. Westminster is a To many he is a future Prime stern age, democracy's urgent more is the pity. Another man vent a repetition of the disaster, resist the years with a success Elliot's horoscope was cast this decisiveness comparable with too. Mr.

when Mr. need is to display a vigour and with white locks dominates it, in which connection it is to be which must be the envy of

George Lansbury, way. Prophecy hushed nssumed that the investigations for a moment.

women. Let us

con- those of the Totalitarian States. whose recipe glance round siderably while he grappled with

for healing the "Thinking aloud" was what sick world is so simple, is like to be carried out will centre

the tangle of Britain's flocks and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald would the wisdom of the Bible rebuk- Mr. Baldwin has the herds.

bave called it. Mr. MacDonald ing the follies of man.

Mr. Anthony Eden is much

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Is it not a tragedy that,

are

will find a piece of wreckage to

What of the Socailists? They

ther it is possible to improve the sophy pulses with the old steady as having succeeded to thank picture, though largely he has a with us. When he speaks the safety arrangements

stroke. The burly shoulders less inheritance, looks dourly non-speaking part. trains. Two points immediate-lish landscape. There is less thoughts are his own..

are like a calm and rolling Eng- competent as usual, and his

ly suggest themselves the calm in Mr. Baldwin's mind. What of the temper of the absence of communication cords Nobody feels so very tranquil. House? There is, of course, one

Of that more in a minute. on the trains and the confining

supreme concern-British de- fence and the state of the world, burdened, and the whole pro- of fire extinguishers to

Sir John Simon, worried about The Nuffleld affair has left deep blem comes down to the speed live a day at a time. They have animosities of Fascists. Reds marks. It has intensified un- with which Britain can rearm, no mind-officially--on defence. tain compartments. On the and Jews, masks any personal casiness about the efficacy of the genius of Mr. Winston They were torn on Spain. A former point, the official attitude perplexities beneath a placid the measures to make us safe. Churchill should be so greatly drifting, disunited, spiritless appears to be that communicn- and patient brow,

Defence will be debated to-day. lost to us? tion cords would be a danger in. The Chancellor of the Exche- Conservative M.P.s will give It seems to me a strange com- party. Mr. Oilver Stanley re- minded them disconcertingly the view of the possibility of ban-quer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Government no rest till it is mentary on democracy that, at a other day how much of So- amicable and urbane, is obvious- proved that the Empire is being time when his immense drive

clalism's reforming field 18 dit activity. It should be borne ly easy about the state of the made so strong that it can be and imagination should be en-

covered by Conservatism. in mind, however, that the nation.

fearless; that the remedies are rolled in some of the most vital trains carry batches of armed guards after the border is cross- cd, and, assuming these men to

be distributed throughout the

Nation's Health

SIR KINGSLEY WOOD The Value

fore the colossal canvas of the plays Napolenically be

various coaches, the presence of nation's health. Mr. Walter

a communication cord might be Elliot, free of the Ministry of Agriculture, seems to have got a

of

The Young Men THE Opposition is a party of aimlessness and wry smiles now. The Socialist "men- ace" is talked about, but it is

Edward VIII Stamps with disdain. Mr. Attice does

what he may in an unenviable of the utmost value to them infoad off his mind. The air of WILL King Edward VIII. stamps a water-mark. Shortly afterwards up its ears more when Dr. Dal- situation. The House pricks giving warning of any suspicious Scotland, impaired as it may bej prove rarities? Every dealer the stamps were reissued with the movements. It is true that use by its long journey south, has hopes so, but he is fairly certain that arms of the colony as a water-mark. ton, superior, donnish, looms up his hopes will not be realised. It seemed obvious to every know- and booms at it. The next oľ the communication

worked wonders.

As soon as it was cord

known that ledgeable collector that the unwater- might be made by bandits on.

The young men have been The Secretary for Scotland is there would be no more of these marked set would prove the better leader of Socialism.

stamps issued, there was a tremen- Investment. The fact is, however, like a man the train to pull it up at a pre- through the. ploughland of

who has toiled dous rush by collectors to lay in that the first set can be bough for little in the public glare this & stocks from all the post offices in £1 15., while the second set will cost session up to now. But watch arranged spot, and this, ad-

Great Britain. That fact alone is you £2 24.1 ominous. mittedly, might be difficult to

GOOD

BUT

will have

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Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd.. Under- Secretary, Home Office. In a quiry. Meantime, it is only High prices are never realised by prevent. With regard to fire ex-right that the efforts of the rail stamps which have been used by the N 1023 the twin West Indian Islands testing post he has competence thousand million, and which were

of St. Kitts-Nevis issued a set of beyond his years. tinguishers, if there had been

stampa in commemoration of the Watch also Mr. Duncan way staff, particularly the pre-purchased by the thousand

tercentenary of the islands dia- any ín the coaches which sence of mind, of the fireman

These stamps, on the other hand, covery. The set proved a drug on Sandys, Mr. Churchill's son-in- vero burnt out in the re-who disconnected, the burning in that short life about 5,000,000,000 stocking it, collectors seemned not to sonality, courage,

short lic, even although he market. Dealers were shy of law, who has brilliant gifts, per- admirably cent disaster, the mvages of coaches, should be acknowledged, will be used, and then there is the want it. Its price here in England marshalled argument.

British stamps and the was very little above Its face value- the flames might possibly have The prompt despatch of troops stamps of

The finest challenge to Bri- the Empire aro the of about £2 28,

ders were made into a glorious bon- spoken in many a long day has

price began to rocket,

fact that

been partially checked. As it from Canton to aid the sufferers leeling world.

favourites of the whole stamp.col- Almost without warning remain tain's youth which has been was, the most that could be done is also worthy of commendation. Bond-street auctioneer a few months smoke their

Evidence of: this fact came to a fire, and as the stamps went up in come from Major Ralph Rayner,

£200,

Edward VIII, cach person has to

was to detach the burning car-Happily, these disasters are ago. A man who had escaped from with the result that the set is now It was a maiden speech. If the

inges from the rest of the train rare, but, in the circumstances his belongings turned up the lapel the dealers rejected had become one will go a long way.

Russia and had to leave behind all priced at about £20. The set which others are like it Major Rayner and allow them to burn out, with prevalling, the railway authori- of his coat and revealed an Empire of the prizes of the albums.

Most accomplished woman stamp clipped there which later So now with the stamps of King M.P. Miss Florence many people aboard, until assisties appear to have done all that fetch attempt any prophecy of sub- make up his inund. They will not brugh, who moved the Address. Hors- tance had been secured. All was humanly possible. It now ecquent values in the atorap world is become great rarities too many She has grace, political learning, these are matters which, as we remains to make adequate pro-and fancies rule it throughout. Two have this advantage as a specula It is as clear as day that she is to ask for trouble, because whims have been tested and sold-but they a voice which charms the ear. have remarked, will come with vision against a similar occur instances suffice to prove this point. tion: a good return on one's invest in the scope of the official inrence in the future

In 1831 Newfoundland issued three ment is a possibility; a loss cannot destined for Westminister im- "denominations of air stamps lacking | be made.

G. F. M. C. portance.

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