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September 13, 1939.

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【ERR HITLER'S troops have occupied large areas in Pa- land; Goering's air force has massacred thousands of men.

women and children.

Bot Warsaw, with its match- less heroism, still interrupts Hitler's view, as the Nazi dicta- tor (his official News Agency tells us) soars 3,000 feet above the battlefields on an aerial tour, From his`plane, Hitler sees a land of sorrow. He

the

graves of thousands of young Poles, the flower of their

country.

sees

He sees husbandless women and fatherless children. He sees. the little graves of the boys and girls his other aeroplanes have killed. He sees desolate fields.

and ruined towns.

And perhaps more terrible, he sees loathing and fear and hatred, which he and his country- men have earned.

By

It is Hitler's monument, Ne began the killing. He opened the sluices of destruction. his decision, and by his decision Light weight cotton, Interlock knitted--the secret alone, he brought this upon a

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The gigantic scale of the underground city that constitutes a typical tort in the Maginot Line is shown in this drawing with the earth stripped off. All the key points are far below the surface, invulnerable to shells and bombs.

barracks are usually close to the turrets. From "Mustrated Loarion Newa".

The British

SIX NATIONS have

far declared Germany.

SO

war on

Their ties are the ties that bind democracies.

One of these nations is France.

At

Commonwealth

War

by

NORMAN STOCKTON

within

galaxy of countries who believe There is nothing to prevent that co-operation

the other nations joining this Com The others are the United framework of a democracy is al monwealth--even nations which Kingdom, Canada, Australia,

ideal that must be maintained. do not desire to render allegiance South Africa and New Zealand. Unlike the League, the British to the King.

Today, under the Statute of Commonwealth maintains that Westminster, no ties but the ties ideal, because each of its members of a common Kingship bind these places its trust in the others--and five latter nations together. each has signed its word to main-

.fain that bond.

They are the five countries who have agreed to become a

*

HERE are brief biographies of the Premiers of the member- nations of the Commonwealth- men, who wield power_equal to that,

Commonwealth or League of E remarkable change in rela- wielded by Mr. Chamberlain:

Nations, each of equal footing and each bound to the other by their love for an English King and a Scottish Queen.

tionship between Great Bri- and the Dominions WAR tain brought about by the Statute of

Westminster..

Canada

Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, the

from

afternoon's cricket.

He pronounces his name phone- tically.

New Zealand.

Mr. Michael Joseph Savage has been the Prime Minister of a So- efalist Government in New Zealand for just over two years. He is 67 and unmarried.

Before entering politics he work o in a country store, did Irrigation work, and became --miner-Be- reached political eminence through the trade union movement, and in strong advocate of co-partnership methods. Responsibility developed in him a bigh standard of Imperial statesmanship.

Shortly after taking office as Pre- nior of New Zealand he said:

the

members.

South Africa

power and arms. For a parallel f. AS with Britain, the King mUBL the other traffic of five continente Assembly of the League of Nations all the Dominions.

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years to Belgium, which likewise was conquered by brute force,

It would bo too much to expect that Poland can save herself from being overrun, unless she can obtain allies who will-permit British and French reinforce- ments to reach her through the Black Sea.

But Poland overrun will be a Poland unconquered. German troops were in possession of Belgium for nearly four years in the last Great War. Belgium auffered terribly. But her name is firmly secure in history as a nation which yielded not to aggression. So with Poland.

There will be a day of reckon ing for Hitler.

accept the advice of the Ministers of each of his Do- minions.

We are bound to the British.

of people by unbreakable ties blood, to say nothing of trade. We ean build in New Zealand, and tur can lend a hand to the British Commonwealth at the same time. The first act of his new Govern- Canadian Prime Minister, is head of the Canadian Liberal Party, and Ils acceleration was made possi- succeeded Mr. Bennett, the former ment was to make a gift of £100,000 Within their own boundaries ble arstly, by the Great War, and Conservative leader, after a record for distribution at Christmas among unemployed. Subsequently he victory at the Canadian polls in they are supreme. Although

more recently by new and quicker October 1935. He is 05, was born in originated a salary sharing s the United Kingdom was at war, muana of communication.

anong his Ministers, under which his Canada, and is unmarried.

own salary was reduced to £800 a the other four nations were To-day. Mr. Chamberlain picks

He is a short, dark, stocky man,

£250 for extra cust of neutral-until each declared it- up the telephone at No. 10 Down- who carries bis head bent slightly entertainment.

year, plus

self at War."

Ing Street and is connected within forward, and looks steadily

Another innovation he Introducedi shaggy eyebrows. Over was the broadcasting of reports of Such is the omnipotence of a matter of secenda with the beneath the Parliaments of each of these Prime Minister of any of the Do- there he is known as the politlefon the New Zealand Parliament, which Democracies that one-South minions. They talk like friends with the perfect "poker face" and is sold to have had the effect or

as a master of political strategy. Africn-very nearly decided around the same table, and have One of his greatest gifts in his greatly increasing the attendances of

10 surround himself with against war. Another-Canada done so many times during the ability

competent, loyal. and acceptable entered the war nine days past few weeks.

London is now the exchange for publle men as Ministers. affer Great Britain.

the whole world in the matter of Canada-with but one short inter-

He held the

of Premiership

South Africa's new War Premier wireless telephone conversations. ruption-from 1921 to 1930, and is famous General Jan Smuts, the When Premier speaks to Premier acted us vice-President of the most notable soldier-statesman of is cleared to give them immediate af Geneva in 1928.

He was born near Cape Town and He attended the Imperial Con- after taking a double frat in the communication.

ference in London in 1023 and 1920. Law Tripos, at Cambridge, returned. If Mr. Chamberlain wishes to King George V's Jubilee and King to Transvaal and became State At- speak to the Prime Minister of George VI's Coronation. He is a torney under Kruger. Then came Australia, or to the Premier of Freeman of the City of London since the Boer War, and as a guerilla New Zealand, on Intimate Imperial 1923. He

Freeman of leader he was second only to De the Edin- Wet in the campaign against affairs, it is done in secrecy over Shefeld, Manchester, and

British. the longest telephone circuits in

After the Union Government was the world.

formed he became Botha's right Mr. R. G. Menzies, who succeeded hand man, and it was largely due that the ugly There was no reason why Aus CONVERSATIONS between the the late Mr. J. A. Lyons, as Austra to his firm actios tralia or New Zealand should not King and his Ministers origi- lia's Prime Minister, was born in labour troubles which had a climax have declared war on Germany nate in London because the King Victoria in 1885 of Australian par- in wholesale deportations terminat-

ed without disaster. is in London. But when the King ents, before Great Britain did.

He became a recognised authority. At the outbreak of the 1014-18 Dominton could declare war on an went to Canada, just before the on the Australian Constitution, which War Smuts was a tower of strength other country while Britain re-

war he became King of Canada, was formulated in 1901 when the to

Botha and the Empire. His mained neutral.

and the calls originated from six Australian States became a Com-vigour and military acumen Ottawa and other centros which monwealth within themselves. Be responsible for the quick he visited on his lour.

fore entering Federal politics he was Germany's African colonies. lure of Вп active member of the State In Australia or in South Africa,

He was one of the leading pro- King George is not King George VI Nationalist Party in Victoria and for ponents of the League of Nations. a while was Acting Premier of Vic which lie first suggested to President of England. He is King George toria. He entered Federal pollues Wilson. He fought gallantly to up- VI of Australia, or King George VI in 1934, and less than a year later hold the prestige of the League and of South Africe. It is almost cer- attained Cabinet renk as Attorney sought wider powers for 11.

Last week General Hertzog was THESE are vital facts about the

the relationship that exists to-day she succeeds her father to

for neutrality. Smuts between Britain and Dominion and Throns will; in this age of modern the right-hand man of Mr. Lyons declared between Dominion and Dominion. swift travel be crowned in each and he was regarded as the biggest forced the question on to the floor IDI, mentally, - in' the Lyons of the Asambly, defeated his leader, The British Commonwealth, in of the ve capitals of the Empire Cabinets.

y and South Africa' went to War. fact, what the League of Nations London; Ottawa, Canberra, He is known to every Test cricke» «rsAt 6 years of age, he is one o Bought to be a lobiely welded Wellington and Cape Town. ter, and loves nothing better than an the world's most remarkable men,

They maintain their own Navies, Armies and Air Forces. They, and they alone, say what taxes they will raise and how they will spend them.

If they decided to become Re- publican, they have the constitu- tional power to do so.

A

There is no more limitation to the power wielded by the Parlia ments and peoples of each of the Dominions than of the House of Commons in London.

burgh.

is piso z

Australia

were

tain that Princess Elizabeth, when General.

During three Governments he was Prime Minister of South Africa. He