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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THE

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1937.

SOCIAL CREDIT PASSES

£5 A MONTH FOR ALL

POSTPONED

But 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."

1ween us. We are 100 per cent.

DIVIDENDS TO

CURE DEPRESSION

"It is not true that i have called a

Mr. William Aberhart and his special meeting of Ministers. It is not true that there is division be-Social Credit Party won the General Election of August, 1938, in Alberta, gaining 54 of the 03 seats in the Pro- vincini Legislature. The principal tem in his programme was the pro- mise of "Social Credit dividends" of £5 a month, to be distributed free to all citizens of Alberta,

united.

"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

BROKEN

"Now I'll tell you the facts.

These were held out to be the cure

DIVIDEND

Wandering Ruler Of Austria

Mr. Hsu Shih-ying, Chinese Ambassador to Japan, returned to Shanghat last week after serving ten months in Tokyo. Ho was met nt ilse pier by General Chang Chun, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Wu Ting-chang, Minster of Industries. Mr. Hsu is seen standing in the centre (holding a white paper), with

General Chong at his right.

Men, Women,

'Suicide Pit'; 2

TWO

Rush

Shot

Budapest, March 15.

WO miners were shot dead by police to-night, a dozen for the economic depression then others and several women were wounded when afflicting Alberta, which Mr. Aber-

hundreds of miners and their wives attempted to rush the pits of the Five Churches Mine at Pecs, Hungary,

hart declared was due not to exces sive production but to inadequate

distribution.

now

Instead of being a cure for depres "In the first place the dividend of slon. "dividends" apparently £6 a month to all citizens which we have to wait until the depression hoped to begin paying next month has passed.

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

our

"But it is false to say that we have conveniently forgotten this part of programme. Nothing of the sort. It is still a vital part of it and will be put into action as soon 39 possible.

£200,000

DEFICIT

"There will be

Budget deficit.

"The statement is not yet com- pleted and I haven't figures before me now, but this may be in the region of £200,000,"

The deficit is due very largely to extensive relief "payments and thin liability is common to other parts of

Canada,

Britain May Have

Air Infantry

TROOPS TO BE LANDED BY PARACHUTE

Aldershot Tests

By A Military Correspondent The formation of Air Infantry Corpa and aur Trains for the trans- port of supplies (ammunition, petrol and provisions) is being Investigated Offer and the Air "Wo hold the view that the by the War Federal Government should share Ministry, this responsibility and treat un- employment as a national problem.

"But capital has not been taken from Alberta. On the contrary it has Increased since we came to office,

"We have met with opposition but this has been largely from vested interesin.

"I stated when I appealed to the people in 1935 that we should deve lop-our- natural resources.This promise has been kept. MINES ARE

DOING WELL

"Oll production is going ahead at a great rate and royalties on new

Meanwhile experiments have been curried out at Aldershot with Army Squadrons in the Co-operation corriage of infantry by aeroplane over considerable distances and at vary ing altitudes.

One hundred and fifty feet]

below the pit heads 400 of their

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

mine's the

pumping machinery before starting their stay- in strike last night.

They have eaten all the rations

they took down into the mine, except

Of Husband

Los Angeles, Mar. 20. Her face as pale as the pillow beneath her head,

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 is due to be invited back any time now-and this time there is no joker in the woodpile.

Otto and his mother, the scheming ax-Empress Zita, have lund their hopes raised und dashed many times. This is especially true of Zita who, saw her husband make two unsur-

cessful coups to regain his lost

ose of Austria and Hun-

crowns--those gary--only to go back in virtual chains to exile and death.

Zita's hopes crystallised upon her

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time working with her and to-day the Austrian Government itself is one of her Allies.

GOVERNMENT ALLY,

If they can find the way-and they believe 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- ficence of the Palace of Schoenbrunn.

to

"To summon the

the Austrian nation decide on the monarchy's return is solely an affair for the State and the (the sole political Fatherland Front, (the

allowed In this country.) Phe form of Government will be Austrian people on the basis of the and exclusively decided by the solely

typical from existing Constitution."

Behind these y-cultured and of jungle exploring Martin rather evasive Johnson-told from a hos- the present Cabinet to do its utmost pital bed her "hatred of the to realise Otto's dream. Leivilisation" which robbed

a few lumps of sugar. The Pecs elly Mrs. Osa Johnson-widow the lips of the cellor of Aus-

magistrate sent R

letter to the strikers, appealing to them to give up.

The men sent it back unopened.

tria,

is hidden the determination of

BRITAIN CONVINCED? They consider that the monarchy

“Take 2 Ounces her of her husband and her is Austria'z best bet. All or most of

Of Dead Man's Raw Flesh!" -

health.

She wants to go back to the jungles, she said, where "crazy gorillas scream like hysterical

women, and beat their chests."

the nations which formerly feared the Hapsburg's return, notably France and Italy and, farther away, Briteln have removed their objections.

They have listened and been con- arguments that with vinced by the Austrian legitimists'

throne the

Otto on the

"As soon as I am well-and r/secured-no wety of Austria is

years of exploring

ho

of Germany im-

a special al IND

the

be

PRESCRIPTIONS OF

13TH CENTURY hope it will be soon, because I posing a Nazi regime on this country

will any longer be possible. In the Middle East, too, air uan-

can't stand it here now-I want So Otto le packing his bags and sport has been considerably develop-

Vienna, Mar. 15. to go to

train schedules, unless ho the Belgian Congo, looking up

finds the call to return ed with satisfactory results. Further

Prescriptions experiments will take place during

ordering

so urgent that a where Martin and I had planned' the ensuing training season.

may need a patient to take two ounces of our next trip.

QUEEN MUST BE -With-his-return Queen Landings so far have been made red-haired, hanged man's raw

"We had 100 by the aeroplane, but it is intended flesh or a spoon-full of mummies":

have to be settled. A shead

is found for him. to practise the dropping of troops by powder, or a dried toad, as well driving me crazy."

of us...now civilization

An Italian princess. had been spoken of, parachute, since it is realised that on as a genuine large piece of

youngest occasion that would have to be done tanned human skin are among only visible reminder of the crash of favour a bride who does

daughter of the King and Queen of A thin scar showed on her chin, Italy, Princess Marla, but

but Austians in the absence of sultable landing the rare treasures of the Vienna's a Western air express akyliner last from their old enemy of the war time not come Apothecaries' Museumn which month, which took the lives of five days. They prefer a Nordic Queen.

When Otto gets back home, he will will be opened to the public in a persons, including her husband.

FLEW 60,000 MILES few days.

find his palaces and castles all re- furbished "Martin and I flew 60,000 miles ness the and anining for him, as wit- remark of another royal in the city's Doomsday-Book, dates from 1373, 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

mony miles over Africa-only to when showing his sister: through Schoenbrunn Palace The Duke, years before, according to ancient

one of our finest airliners. Plop himself an exile now, remarked with chronicles.

just lse that!

admiration: This is so much better than my old place in London!".

wells are already greater, than the places for the machines. whole of the old field.

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

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

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

"I CAN'T ALWAYS BI WATCHING THEM HOW,

KEEP THEM HEALTHY?"

NURSE. HOW CAN I

"'You're

very wiss to ask

that, Mrs. Bartlett. 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 specially important with children at the critical age, like yours, who are working hard for their exams. There's nothing pulls them down more than poison in the system it affects their general health making them liable to catch any infection that's going about.

of

run my experience "Callforain does far more than deanse the system. It acts naturally, and gently and keeps the digestion healthy and active.

"I 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 sureto get the genuine" California "Sarup of Figs.":"

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'NATURE'S OWN' LAKATIVE

The strategical and tactical implica- tions involved in this new ald to mo- dern warfare ure so important as to make neglect of the air method of transport highly dangerous should we again be engaged in a major war.

RAIDS ON RAILWAYS

Vienna's first dispensary, recorded

1

White House

The uses to which air infantry could conceivably be put include the

Chlef sponsor of the new muscum

"It was the worst thing that ever United Press. destruction of railway bridges and is Father Seltz.. member of the

Brethren, a religious happened to me." ammunition dumps and the raiding Samaritan of headquarters.

Catholic order, chiefly devoted to Smiling from the depths of a fca- the care of the sick and invalids. Aerial 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- ion of petrol armoured fighting implements among which a particu-porters of her plans for the future. vehicles is a problem of the highest larly fine set of apothecary's mortars "First. I am going to By again. Importance, and so is the supply of from 15th and 18th 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 library contains medical re- fly. Then I will make plans to re- reliance cannot always be placed on ports from five centuries which in turn to Africa. normal mechanical transport.

their antiquated language, will Ocensionally, too, the air might be doubtless prove a mine of Informa- tion not only for professional the only means of provisioning an

scholars, but also for amateurs and Isolated post.

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

the submission of reports on the

"I WANT TO GO BACK*

"I want to go where I will never

hear about that accident gain."

She has two official engagements to keep, and one unofficial with seven-year-old Shirley Temple, child

Russian manoeuvres to the Army WOMAN TAKES FIRST PLACE INdim star, who has invited her to

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

MACHINE-GUN SHOOTING... "

lunch.

"She wants me to come to see her COMPETITIONS

rabbits," Mrs. Johnson said. "I 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 | She will broadcast from ber hos- members of the Ossoaviakhim en-pital bed a postponed lecture, to have gaged in enterprises of the capital, in- been delivered at the Shrine Audi- women, begun near torium here, but cancelled when the

big airline cracked up.

She has another engagement in Michuria, a woman worker of the

"and after that➡Africa." "There is more danger in a city thun there is in the jungle," she said, "You don't have to cross streets." |—United Press.

were decidedly illuminating. They cluding 225

Moscow on March 8.

showed the use the Russians made

of the Air arm in moving not only fractory 'Krasny Proletary', won the Pasadons," troops, but Jorries and light tanks.

to distant parts of the field of opera- first place, shooting from a light tions. These vehicles were carried machine-gun at a distance of 100 under the fuselage of specially bulit metres, she scored 55 points out of a machines. The use of the parachute 60 possible-Tass

in landing light Infantry was also practised by the Russians on considerable scale.

MASS DESCENTS. Neither General Wavell nor Colonel Martel was, I understand, favourably Impressed with the mass parachute descent ns on operation. of war, out it did demonstrate the use to which could be put and, in air transport.

satis- certain circumstances, with factory results

These reports and the successf experiments made by the Italians in Abyssinia In the face of almost in- superable difficulties have induced newer Omee, in co-operation with the Air Ministry, to organise further experiments.

WATSON'S

Menus Too Old?

Washington, Mar, 25, PRITISH breakfasts will prob- Dably be served to Fresident

Roosevelt in future.

The President complained re- cently about the "routine meala” served at the White House.

Now. Mrs: Roosevelt reveals that she has given the President a *New Deal" na regards' his

disclosed meals. She

מם

pas

to-day that the menus at the White House had been revised,

that she was including the new menus several items Krested by Lady. Willert, wife of Sir Arthur Willert, formerly of the British Foreign Office, who is a guest at the White House at pre- seritanya

To this Mrs. Boosevelt added the comment: "British breakfasts are famous," but she declined to disclose any more details.

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