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Dr. To War

WAR WITH CHINA is costing 661

Japan £1,000,000 a day- over £11 for every tick of the elock, a mill-stone of half-a- crown to be added ench morning to the necks of every man, wo- man and child residing on the small island off the coast of Asin.

By the end of this year, the total cost of the "China In- cident" to Japan will be £600,- 000,000 and that is war costs alone,

The American War of In- dependence cost Britain and the United States £160,000,000. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 cost £318,000,000, The Crimean War cost £308,000,000.

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Like everything else, the cost of warfare has progressed with few centuries civilisation. A ago it was a comparatively simple thing to order a Crusade or so, when the only replenish- ments needed were

few arrows, which grow on trees. Bombs and shells don't grow on trees, and the explosion of even one small 100lb, bomb on a de fenceless Chinese city represents the dissipation of what is a princely sum to a Japanese fac- tory worker.

To the Japanese lax-payer, a bomb is a much more serious matter than it would be to the tax-payers of nations where higher standards of living rule. A 100lb, bomb or shell is the

the equivalent of

wages A Japanese manual worker carn in two, three or even four years. It is only four or five months' wages for a Briton..

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this tragic million?

ILL the British help us?"

Go where you will among the small nations and among the trembling minorities of Fascist ridden Europe and you will have this question addressed to you by men and women for whom to-day spells fear and to-morrow may bring disaster.

One million men and women and children, the Jews of Germany and former Austria, facing destruction and death at the hands of Nazl taskmasters, are at this moment stretching out their hands in mute and despairing appeat for rescue, towards the small community of 350,000 Jews of Britain.

What this community has to any may be regarded as the volce of Jewry. I sought, therefore, the lay head of British Jewry, Mr. Neville Laski, K.C., President of the Board of Deputles, representative body of the Jews of the British Empire, to express his views on the disaster now being inflicted on the Jews of Germany.

WHAT is your view of the German

Jewish position after the Prime Minister's statement to the House of Commons?

We cannot but feel grateful to the Prime Minister and the 1fome Secre fary for what they have said and done for our afflicted fellow Jewe of Get- many. We will use every endeavour to study their suggestions and to co- operate to the limits of our power. Anancial and otherwise.

It is particularly gratifying that the

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An interview with

NEVILLE J. LASKI, K.C.

(Who speaks as the elected head of British Jewry) SumBY A. L. EASTERMA N mu⌁mé

place of refugee children in the scheme of emigration is so sympathetically con- sidered. They are the life blood on which our future depends.

It is, however, in no sense of criticism that I say that what is envisaged only touches the fringe of the problem which has now assumed atmost astro- nomical proportions.

I ask the civilised world what is in be the fate of the Jews and non-Aryan Christians of Germany, numbering per- haps one and a half millions, for whom

"Greater there is now no life in Germany?

15 the Nazi persecution a catustrophe for the German Jews alone or has it a broader import?

In my opinion it in not possible to olate the German Jews in relation to these events, Humanity, liberty, civilization itself are at stake.

Judaism and Christianity, as basic creeds, are facing in the Germany of to-day the threat of destruction. The spirit and soul of a people, as ex- pressed in a faith and observance of ihat faith, have no place in Nazi Ger many,

The burning of synagogues, the Im prisonment of Nicinoller, the threats to Cardinala Faulhaber and Innitzer ure in the same context of thought

and action. There is, in Nazi Ger muny, a complete lack of the privacy and sanctity of life.

WHAT effect has this had on the Jewish position, as a whole?

Bo far from Nazism being, as its leaders continually and falsely pro claim, an article for home consump- tion only, it is the largest export of modern Germany.

It is computed thot at

least £23,000,000 is spent yearly by the Nazi Government at home and abroad on propaganda. Much of this la spent in this country,

Anti-Semitism is the smoke screen behind which Germany, in Central and Eastern Europe, moves to political and economic conquest,

We are the first victims over whose bodies others are conquered. Outalde bayo Germany millions of Jews suffered from the spread of her teach- ings. If the Nazi doctrine captures the world, we sink in common ruin with civiliantion and its great heritage as I understand it.

S there anything the Jews can do

in their own defence?

All they can do is to give and give and give. In addition to the continued!

TWO MEN. GRIN AND BEAR IT

SAME JOB, BOTH DIE

WITHIN a fortnight, two successive managers of a Chatham (Kent) quilter's shop have been found dend, in each case in a wood,

There seems some reason for asking, whether the Japanese

Mr. Henry Stapley-Laird Cox, of civilian is capable of bearing for Marcet-road, Dartford, who had teen long those half-n-crown mill-in charge of the shop for many years, was discovered in his car in a wood stones

placed at Frindsbury, near Chathum. around their individual necks each morning by their war leaders.

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cheerfully

tt

CX-

A rubber tube ran from the haust to the front seat,

It was stated at the inquest that he was depressed, and verdict of Suicide while the Balance of his Mind was Disturbed was recorded. PROMOTED

Seek Knowledge LEARN something to-day. A

Later 12-years-old Mr. new day brings another nutt, promoted from the position of opportunity for knowledge.departmental manager of the firm's Nourish it.

Frederick

Maldsone branch, left his home in take Postley-road, Maidstone, to Knowledge is needed more over the management of the Chal- than ever. There is a recession ham shop, made vacant by the death in knowledge for its own anke. of Mr. Cox. Propaganda muddles the stream

of truth.

In this Colony floods of dopo

do not sweep us off our balance.

He met a dozen members of the klaft, and was seen no more by them after the day's work

Was Dyer,

He did not reappear at the abup the next day, and the staff awaited his

To-morrow morning our boys and return.

In n

girls return to their class-rooms, He was found lying dend And their teachers give out wood at Bluebell Hill, near Maid- lessons, not the dope.

A bottie was by his aide.

atone.

WEATHER BVREAU

By

burden of their large communal social commitments and the burden of the Kreat and impoverished Eastern Euro- pean Jewries, the Jewish communities of the world have contributed over £3,000,000 for the rellet of derman Jewry, of which the Jews of this coun- try have given a mlillen and a half.

The greatest actual and potential country of immigration for these

Palciting, which refugeen 14 absorbed over 40,000 of them, her great material advantage. all hope. and, indeed, pray.

It

has to

Wo

that

con-

mny come within the text of round table agreement and the policy of the British Government that tho nelmission of immigrants to Pales- tine may be maintained at as highs and accelerated a level as possible. But for the present needs Palestine is not enough.

We hope fervently that the inter- Governmental Committee established As a result of Evian may not only find large places for large numbers of these worthy, hardworking people, but may procure from Germany a release of their means to accompany them Inte

exile.

Is it only a problem of charitable relief, or is this a more baste problem requiring a more permanent solution?

Charity is useless except na a tem- Dorary expedient. What we have from the first had in mind is constructive expenditure

We train boys and girls for the land and handiwork and handicraft occupa- tions. We convert professional men into landwerkern, mechanics and art!-

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The ultimate aim is to rescue the children and youth of our people so that they, the next generation and their children may live as free mea and women among free peoples.

Lichty

"Keep your mind on your work, Wilcon-this is the third day you've predicted a flurry in the market!"

Is this a problem for the Jews alone

to solve?

Tha question the world in the last week has answered for me. The plain man, his church, his newspaper, his every means of expression have to turned an emphatic negative.

In a free world where government is ol, for and by the people, Governments. sense and follow the common opinion. In no still small voice but in echoing thunder the peoples of the world have nsked. плу demanded, thust their chosen rulers shall do their bidding and to the uttermost help these stricken German Jews to find a home. of perce and security.

the IT is said that Jews have

material means of bringing pressure to bear on Germany?

I wish in a sense this were true. The degradation of the German Jew over the past nearly six years, and tho events which now horrify the world Indicate that we hayo no such effective

mana.

I have said, and I repeat, that no self-respecting Jews will utilise German servicek or handle German goods. Can wo in decency do less in face of our persecutors and traducers?

WHAT is the answer to Next threats of further vengeance against the German Jewa?

There is a point at which even the cowering victim of terror will not yield to blackmail, German Jowry is now auffering a living death at the handa of the Nazis.

I know of nothing further which our tellow Jaws in Germany can suffer savS masa murder, and that is not much more than the horrors that are being inflicted on them now.

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