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THE ·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH

1937.

SOCIAL CREDIT PASSES DIVIDEND

£5 A MONTH FOR ALL

But

POSTPONED

Alberta's Premier

Is Not "Finished"

By A Special Correspondent

Mr. William Aberhart, Social Credit pioneer and Premier of Alberta, is not “finished.".

This he told me when spoken to by Transatlantic tele- phone in Calgary recently.

I phoned to learn what truth there was in the reports that he had quarrelled with his Ministers and would resign soon.

"Listen," he told me, "I'm just beginning. We have started to get things moving.

only don't pretend to be governing on the only Social Credit principle yet."

"If is not true-that I have called a ..special meeting of Ministers. It is

DIVIDENDS TO

CURE DEPRESSION

Mr. William Aberhart and his not true that there is division bo- Social Credit Party won the General tween", "an. We are 100 per

cent. Election of August, 1935, in Alberta, gaining 54 of the 63 seats in the Pro- united.

vincial Legislature. The principal

"It is not true that I am preparing to resign. I haven't the slightest in tention of taking any such step.

"We can stay in office another three and a half years and we are staying.

NO PROMISE

item in life programme was the pro-

mise of "Social Credit dividends" of a month, to be distributed free

to all citizens of Alberta.

These were held out to be the cure

afflicting Alberta, which Mr.

Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, Chinese Ambassador to Japan, returned to Shanghai last week after serving ten months in Tokyo. He was met at the pfer by General Chang Chun, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Wu Ting-chang. Minster of: Industries. Mr. Isu Is seen atanding in the centre (holding a white paper), with

General Chang at his right.

Men, Women, 'Suicide Pit'; 2

.

Rush

Shot

Budapest, March 15.

TWO miners were shot dead by police to-night, a dozen for the economic depression then others and several women were wounded when hart declared was dus pot to exces-hundreds of miners and their wives attempted to rush sive production but to inadequate the pits of the Five Churches Mine at Pecs, Hungary,

Instead of being a cure for depres- One hundred and fifty feet| "In the arst place the dividend of slon, £5 a month to all citizens which we have to wait until the depression below the pit heads 400 of their hoped to begin paying next month has passed,

BROKEN

"Now I'll tell you the facts.

will not be paid. This does mean I have broken a. promise.

not

"But it is false to say that we have conveniently forgotten this part of our programme. Nothing of the Bort. It is still a vital part of it and will be put into action as soon as possible.

£200,000

DEFICIT

"There will be a Budget defcit.

-“The statement is not yet com- ∙pleted and X'haven't figures before "ize="zow--but this may-be in the

region of £200,000."

distribution.

"dividends" apparently now

Britain May Have

Air Infantry

TROOPS TO BE LANDED BY PARACHUTE

Aldershot Tests

By A Military Correspondent The deficit is dus very largely to

The formation of Air Infantry extensive reliet payments and this Corps and Air Trains for the trans-

and provisione) to halwa mengaitu By the War Office and the Air Ministry.

Hability is common to other parts of part of supplies (ammunition, petrol

-Canada,

"Wo hold the view that the "Federal Government should share this responsibility and treat un-

Meanwhile experiments have been employment as a national problem.carried out at Aldershot with Army

Squadrons in "But capital has not been taken, Co-operation from Alberta. On the contrary it carriage of infantry by neroplane over has increased since we come to office. considerable distances and at vary-

Ing altitudes,

"We have met wlik opposition but this has been largely from verted interests.

"I stated when I appealed to the

the

In the Middle East, too, air tran- sport has been considerably develop-. ed-with-satisfactory results-Further experiments will take place during people in 1935 that we should devethe ensuing training season. lop

natsiral our

resources. This promise has been kept.

MINES ARE

DOING WELL

"Oll 'production is going ahead at

wells are already greater than the whole of the old field.

"Coal and salt mines are also pro- gressing and the results will be seen next August.

occasion that would have to be done

places for the machines.

comrades sat shivering in the Civilisation

dark waiting for a flood in the

shafts to rise and engulf them-

or

for their employers to grant Robbed Her them a twenty per cent. wage

increase.

The "suicide strikes" deliberately destroyed the machinery before starting their stay- in strike last night.

Of Husband

Wandering Ruler Of Austria

Vienna, Mar. 15.

The wandering boy of the eternal Habsburgs, Emperor Otto, is packing his grips in his exile in Belgium really to come back to the old home town and instal himself in the palace of his fathers.

He has been told by everyone who ought to know, including Austria's Chancellor, former artillery officer and jurist, Doc tor Kurt von Schuschnigg, that his place is being prepared for him. He la due to be invited back any time now and this time there is no joker in the woodpile.

Otto and his mother, the scheming ex-Empress Zlta, have had, their hopes raised and dashed many times, This is especially true of Zita who saw her husband make two unsuc- cessful coups to regain his lost crowns-those of Austria and Hun- gary-only to go back in virtual

chains to exile and denta

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If they can find the way--and they belleve they can the boy Emperor will be back to rule the State from the Hofburg Palace in the heart of old Vienna or from the faded magni- Acence of the Palace of Schoenbrunn. **To summon the Austrian nation to decide on the monarchy's return is an affair for the State and the Fatherland Front, (the sole political

allowed in this country.) mine's pumping Los Angeles, Mar. 20.

parthe form of Government will be Her face as pale as the Austrian people on the basis of the

solely

and I exclusively decided by the pillow beneath her head, existing Constitution."

Behind these Mrs. Osa Johnson-widow the lips of the highly-cultured and words, typical from of jungle exploring Martin rather evasive Chancellor of Aus

triots. hidden the determination of Johnson-told from a hos-the present Cabinet to do lis utmost pital bed her "hatred of the to realise Otto's dream. civilisation" which robbed

of a chec health.

They have eaten all the rations they took down into the mine, except a few lumps of sugar. The Pecs clty magistrate sent

a letter to the strikers, appealing to them to give up The men sent it back unopened.

Take 2 Ounces Of Dead Man's Raw Flesh!".

PRESCRIPTIONS OF 13TH CENTURY

...

"We had 100 years of exploring

.

BRITAIN CONVINCED?.

that the monarchy the nations which formerly febred the Hapsburg's return, notably France and Italy and, farther away, Britain have removed their objections,

They have listened and been con-

She wants to go back to the jungles, she said, where "crazy gorillas scream like hysterical vinced by the Austrian legitimiste arguments that with Otto on the women, and beat their chests."

throne the safety of Austria Is "As soon as I am well-and 1 secured-no danger of Germany im

i posing a

Nazi regime on this country hope it will be soon, because I longer be possible. can't stand it here now-I want So Otto

schedules, unless he Vienna, Mar. 16 to go to the Belgian Congo, looking up training his bogs and e call to return so urgent that Prescriptions ordering a where Martin and I had planned and the

he may need special airplane patient to take two ounces of our next trip.

QUEEN MUST BE FOUND Landings so for have been made red-haired, hanged man's raw

With

his return, many questions have to be settled. A Queen must be by the aeroplane, but it is intended flesh or a spoon-full of mummies" to practise the dropping of troops by powder, or a dried toad, as well ahead of us..now civilization is found for him. An Italion princess parachute, since it is realised that on as a genuine large piece of driving me crazy."

had been spoken of, the youngest daughter of the King and Queen of A thin scar showed on her chin, Italy, Princess Morlo, but Austians a great rate and royalties on new in the absence of suitable landing / tanned human skin aro ́among only visible reminder of the crash of

not come the rare treasures of the Vienna's Western air express skyliner last our a bride who done

their old enemy of the war time which month, which took the lives of five days. They prefer a Nordic Queen. The strategical and tactical implica-Apothecaries Museum tions involved in this new old to mo- will be opened to the public in a persons, including her husband, When Otto gets back home, he will dern warfare are so important as to few days,

FLEW 60,000 MILES

find his palaces and castles all re- mako neglect of the air method of Vienna's first dispensary, recorded

furbished and shining for him, as wit- "Martin and I flew 60,000 miles ness the remark of another royal transport highly dangerous should in the city's Doomsday-Book, dates we again be engaged in a major war. from 1873, but other drug stores over Borneo and God knows how young man, the Duke of

Windsor, have existed at least a hundred have an accident like that happen on Schoenbrunn

miles over Africa-only to when showing his sister many

Palace The Duke, years before, according to ancient. one of our finest airliners. Plop himself an exile now, remarked with The uses to which nir infantry

chronicles.

just like that!

admiration: "This is so much better. could conceivably be put include the

Chlef sponsor of the new museum

than my old place in London!"" destruction of railway bridges and is Father Seitz, member of the "It was the worst thing that ever United Press. ammunition dumps and the raiding Catholic order, chiefly devoted to

Samaritan Brethren, 4 religious happened to me." of beadquarters.

the care of the sick and invalids.

Smiling from the depths of a ten- Acriul supply trains would, at He has brought together a valu-ther maribou cape which framed her times, prove Invaluable. The provis-able collection of ancient medical white face, she told newspaper re- lon of petrol to armoured Oghting implements among which a particu-porters of her plans for the future. vehicles is a problem of the highest iarly fine set of apothecary's mortars 'First, I am going to fly again.. I Importance, and so is the supply of from 15th and 10th centuries pre-am a pilot, myself, and my first job ammunition to the fighting troops dominate.

will be to get back in a plane and generally. It has been proved that The Ibrary.contains medical ro-fly. Then I will make plans to re- reliance cannot always be placed on ports from five centuries which in turn to Africs.. normal mechanical transport,

Occasionally, too, the air might be the only means of provisioning an isolated post.

"We have made progress despite set-backs. We have financial dim- culties, but we are not bankrupt,

"A new policy can only be intro- duced gradually," he concluded, "We

"I CAN'T ALWAYS BE WATCHING THEM NOW, Hukse. HOW CAN I XIIP THEM HEALTHY 7"

"You're very wise to ask that, Mra, Bartielt. And I'll tell you the way in which you can help them most

Make sure of internal cleanliness by giving them a regular weekly dose of California Syrup of Figs. This is special important with children at critical nge, like yours; who are working hard for their exams. There's nothing pulls them down more than poisoning the system — it affects their general health making them liable to catch any infection. that's

my

going aboutco California experience up of Figs does far more than simply cleanse the system. It acts quite naturally, and gonily and keeps digestion healthy and active. "And "California Syrup of Figs equally good for adults, especially for women: As a matter of fact, Mrs. Bartlett, I use it myself and recom mend you to adopt it for the whole family

Be sure to get the genuine "Galifornin Syrups of Figa!”.

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RAIDS ON RAILWAYS

their entiquated language, will

"I WANT TO GO BACK” doubtless prave a mine of informa Lion not only for professional

"I want to go where I will never scholars, but also for amateurs and hear about that accident gain."

She has two offelal engagements to keep, and one unofficial with seven-year-old Shirley Temple, child' alm ster, who has invited her to Junch.

students of medieval · life and, cus- All these questions have been tome generally-United Press. investigated by the War Office since

the

MACHINE-GUN SHOOTING

COMPETITIONS

the submission of reports on Russian manoeuvres to the Army WOMAN TAKES FIRST PLACE IN Council by Major-General Archibald Wavell, Commander of the 2nd Division, and Colonel Le Q. Martel, Assistant Director of Mechanisation at the War Office,

The views of these officers on the Soviet development of air transport were decidedly illuminating. They

"She wants me to come to see her rabbits," Mrs. Johnson said. "

was Moscow, Mar. 7. born in Kansas; where all the rabbits The Moscow machine-gun com-In the world are born." petitions, participated in by over 700 Sho will broadcast from her hos- members of the Ossoavlakhim en-pital bed a postponed lecture, to have gaged in enterprises of the capital, in- been delivered at the Shrine Audi- cluding 225 women, began near torium here, but cancelled when the Moscow оп March 6.

big airline cracked up. of the Air arm in moving not only factory Kramy Proletary, won the Pasadena, "and after that Africa.

She has another engagement in troops, but lorries

aught "There is more danger in nelly to distant parts of the Aeld of opera-first place, shooting from tions. These vehicles were carried machine-gun at a distance of 100 than there is in the jungle," she said. under the fuselage of specially built metres, she scored 55 points out of a "You don't have to cross streets." machines. The use of the parachute 60 possible-Tass

showed the use the Russians made

and light tanks

in landing light infantry was also practised by the Russians ...on - a considerable scale,

MASS DESCENTS. Neither General Wavell nor Colonel Martel was, I understand, favourably impressed with tie mass parachute descent as an operation of war, but It did demonstrate the use to which

certain

in

air transport could be pur and h alefactor, ancas, ⠀⠀⠀

"These reports and the successful experiment made by the Italians Abyssinia ing the face of almost t superables dificultier have induced The War Omes, Intco-operations will the-Air Ministry, to organise, further,

përiments.

Michurina, a woman worker of the

United Frear.

WATSON'S

White House Menus Too Old?

Washington, Mar. 25,

BRITISHI breakfasts will prob D ably be served to Président Roosevelt in future..

The President complained re- cently about the "routine mcals” served at the White House,

Now Mrs. Roosevelt reveals that she bis given. the:

President

P

"New Deal" as regards his meals. She disclosed to-day that the menus"_at" the "White House had been revised, and that: she was including on the mew menus - several: ftoms, suggested by Lady Willert, wife of Bir Aribur. Willert, formerly of the British Foreign Office, who is a gucci At the

sents Waite House at pre-

To this. Mrs. Roosevelt added the comment: “Hélfish breakfasts are famous," but she declined to disclose any moro defalis,

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