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Zurich Herald, 1929-09-26, Page 3v,wanra� IPar.._. Forces of Britain and France Unite in Pacifying Near East. Invasion of Syrian Arabs Into Palestine Checked by Repres- sive Measures ---Jews Arrested in Haifa and Tel Aviv for Possessing Firearms Jeresalent--*British repressive ef-sald, its tte Arab villages ht tate vista- forts have so broken up the Invasion its of J.ertssilleui , and 1110 Arabs ox leiflca, near Mt.tza, were arrested. Thirty11ve Jews were arrested'. in Haifa and 17 In Tel Aviv on charges. of possessing firearms for defense. The high Comtuis1oner, Sir John Chancellor, was said to have refused numerous requests that scores et Jews Imprisoned) on charges r f lion seslon c,1 anal be released or to per- mit distribution or at'nis amens; s; set- tlers in colonies in the north, The Jewish telegraphic agency also reported that the Creek Orthedox Church in the Christian community In Belson was attacked by. Arab Moslems, There were casualties 'but the exact number was not known. it was said also that a ronferencu n1' ing the restless nomadic bands of Jewish and Moslem leaders resuilea Arabs the power of the British Gov- in an agreement which prevented 1111 ornment, which wag prepared to Arab attack on 'Tiberias, in Cattle°. strike hard iu case further breaches Arabs attacked two Jewish 'wip- er the peace developed. Hies in the 'Tiberia-t district but beth Principal danger of recurring were repulsed by inhabitants. One clashes seemed to exist in the north,' attach was on Hippie, colony of or with the vicinity of Safed somewhat tbodox Jews. Tito other tree, direct - restless. One ormpany of the South ed against Mizpalt, where the term of Staffordshire regiment moved north- Lorrl Medciiett, Ilritish Zionist least ward to aid in keeping the peace er, is located, there. Mithgal El Fah'. first sheik of the The correspondent of the Jewish Beni SSakhi tribe in Transjordan, telegraphic agency reported the gen- who was arrested last week after eral situation as comparatively quiet, reaching Jerusalem by a ruse, has and signs were accumulating that it been released on parole atter having was improved. Searches were under- given his personal assurance not to taken by the British authorities, he take up arms against Great Britain. of Bedouins from Syria Into .Pales-. title that only small scattered forces. were said to he . making their way aeroes..tlie border. for participation. en rho Arab-lees/sit hostilities. Information here was that the 13r1_ tisk military, co-operating closely with he 'French Goreriimenit t 1' dated Syria, had the Situation in Banti, the French had closed I he en- tire Syrian frontier and were exert- ing every effort to maintaiu taw and order The BrItisb Transjordan fron- tier has been closed since the begin- ning of the trouble. British aircraft continued their de- nionstraticns over tate invaders, slow_ 1� ter to win at once a promise . of at What Mr, Snowden Ieast partial satisfaction. Has Accomplished Some Personal and Political. Aspects of the Issues Raised at the Hague "Whether Mr. Philip Snowden had a good case at The Hague," writes Mre Sisley Huddleston in the New Statesmen. "or whether it wee, in it- self, worth while making a fuss about it, I do nat rightly know; it may be for the sake or 22 10s? that a little more or a little less. "It is true that rhe 'French,' Mr. atter so many years of drifting, is of Brailsford concludes, "will receive no earticular• consesuence. Nor do much the greater part c.:: the `uncoil. 1 pronounce upon his manner, t;•heth-, ciitional' payments. But" is this a er d t 1 fly fa' way of plating it? Theis tily. Eminent Guests Enjoy the Rockies Cannot orsee Canada's tore Question Not Discussed De- clares C.P.R. President; E. W. Beatty Regina, Sask.---In an interview here recently; B. W. Beatty, M C., president of the Canadian Paoiflc Railway, stated that the company was outer-, taiuisig no plans tor tbe construction of auy lines to Fort Churchill. The uestion had not been discussed by the management, be said: "But. you cannot look very far ahead in this country," he added. Speaking of the uncertainty of making state- ments touching' upon the future. "We must be ready for anything, Our northern feeder lines were not fore- seen a number of years ago," Mr. Beatty is making a tour of the system in company with several di- rectors of the company, That the Lanigan line now under construction and expected to be fie idled next year, will be a valuable feeder to Regina territory, was Mr. Beatty's belief, "It will open up ter- ritory in the north and put it iu touch with Regina," he said. Arrangements with the Canadian National for run- ning rights into Prince Albert had been tentatively arranged, he stated. The mining claims in the Rotten - stone area bad not lived up to ee.pec• tations, said Mr. Beatty, and the Con- solidated Smelters had- dropped their WINSTON CHURCHILL ANO PARTY ENJOY BEAUTY OF CANADIAN ROCKIES present claims, but were still working in the district in prospect that there Left to right—Randolph, John, Rt. Hon, Winston and Major John Churchill, taken during their stay at Banff was something more in the field. in the Canadian Rockies, where they enjoyed the air and magnificent scenery of the well-known resort. "As yet no substantial mineral de- velopment has been discovered," Mr, Beatty declared, addiii,g that the claims first worked had been spotty and thin. Modern business speed and reiuire- ments have been the primary cause of the recent coast-to-coast reductio(: of time by 10 hours, Mr, Beatty said, "The demand for increased speed, which means a saving of time, is grow- ing and our railway to meet it had to bring about such reductions." "A reduction in the running time of the Trans -Canada Limited is quite likely by May," added the president. Lure of North Ottawa.—The lure of the north is strong in the hearts of Canadians. taken in the sixth committee of the (Anyone doubting this should see the Assembly of the League of Nations correspondence pouring in on the De when it was resolved to request the Council of the League of Nations to iii�artment of Railways and Canals, ask - appoint a commission to study the I lug to be allowed to go to Churchill. The flood of requests started when a whole question of slavery in all its news item announced that it might be varied forms. l possible trains would be running into It is certain that the situation wants that port by the end of the month, very close looking into, for tate Span - Everyone seems to be santisig to ish delegate, Signor Palaccio, stated go north, The requests come from that since the slavery eouyention was l Boards of Trade wishing to send par - signed the nations had learned a great 'Boards up there, from Legislatures want - deal more about slavery, including the , ing representatives on the ground, big fact as stated by an-- eminent author - !commercial its on slavery that there are in the i commercial interests desiring to be early on the scene, and the great :world to -day not less than 8,000,000.,mass of individuals who want to r.,ntV slaves. ' lent of i up with the r. _ .. It is rattier milia(• The proposal for the appoi to gassing to the Department because at a commission was brought forward present the only buildings at Church - by Viscount Cecil, and supported by 1111 are those to house men engaged on Dr. Fridtjof Nausea, and although no the dredging and the railway construe - states were uamed where slavery is tion. The only food supplies there Govern - known to prevail, it was said in the are those belonging to the Govern- coui'se of the discussion that there meat. were two large territorities contingu- Hon.. C. A. Dunning, Minister of ons to British territory where slavery Railways, announec. that his depart- ment was preparing a statement which portauce in European aviation when It was admitted that if the impres- will he published soon, explaining the mails are carried by air from Galway sion still prevailed that slavery es whole situation there. During the to England. If expectations are real- isted only in the British Empire, it summer the construction gangs have was due to the fact that Great Britain continually been called upon to feed had taken such pains in sending in adventurous people who made their voluminous reports. Dr. Nansen will way by air and otherwise to Churchill raise the geestion whether, in view without making any provision as to of the fact that the United States had what they should eat after they got adhered to the slavery convention, it there. is. that of. a strong man. "He had been something of an,. athlete; you may know that by the, gra-.p of his hand. 1 believe, too, "It is on the first clement] that that tattteness bas served to give Mr, Snowden has insisted with seec•iat him a certain aaint and self-control' Opposite House Se of Commons urgency. On his reckoning it reater than !te might have acquired (' .Pa's 80 -Ft. Home In the Thames amounts to'a matter of 22,400,000 per annum. A large sunt? To you and me a colossal sunt, but one must measure it in relation to'our national Budget„ "We are threatening to wreck the settlement of Europe for the sake or less than £2i/ millions in n budget of rver 2300 millions. What would one think of a man with a cam- Impecunious Statesmen A Truthful Tory in Truth (London): To go acs no twenty years of last century, the that at the general election when he House of Commons was composed of was the only Conservative caudidate men of private fortuue, or their sons. to defeat a Socialist sitting member. The House of Commons is no longer This is his first experience of the a body of gentlemen of independent ?douse of Commons, and he has salut- he should have purrs more met, tv io it means. The average Briton is built ed it by anchoring Pauling beneath y, and have been lest Ycrthligltt, claim is for reparations proper, the on such lines that he regards a mem- its windows, and. going ashore each ".But his merit is that or a man actual restoration of their devasted ber'of Parliament paid 2400 out of day in a dinghy and a pair of grey vim brings. a breath of reality into areas. Did not all of us 'concede the taxes with lesss than half the re- flannel trousers. an atmosphere of unreality. He has that such claims stand in a wholly speer he felt for the old type of mem- I went aboard Pauline. Her saloon d os panelled in coffee - g London,—I have discovered the poli - without it; for this is very istic t titian who has solved the problems of fu him, and not a charactertstic of the Snowden stock. Strength and housing transport, dress reform, and calm, with the honesty of his nature, rate collectors, writes a corresiioncl- have come to show themselves at ent, last in a very lucid brain command-, He is Major Lionel Beaumont -Thom - Jug all its resources." 'as, Conservative M.P., for King's Nor- ton, Birmingham, and he lives opposite the House of Comous in his SO -foot motor -yacht Pauling. �" " a ti Major Beaumont -Thomas is a young "1k9_ turned the ;wild `upside ee n b I fartllei• than the last man of extraordinary vim. He showed smashed tie net work or pretence different class from the rest of the and compromise , and private bar- Attlee' demands neon Germany? gaining .and platitudinizing that en- "Has not our Socialist International wraps so many conferences. How repeatedly drawn this distinction? trivial seemed suddenly to be this And has not tbe Labor Party itself secret lining -up rf forces hi the lob_ in its official publications challenged biesl A will support B on this point, the whole basis on which the British if B will support A on that point; claims were reckoned? This episode and the' minority, which has been out- is not yet over—there is still time witted in hotel rooms, will pleasant- for a return to a luster sense of pro- ly acquiesce. And afterwards, each delegate, retaking the most of a lit- tle arranged triumph, and smarting under a veritable defeat, will Pub- licly recite the litany of peace! A Perilous Method "Tile method has always seemed to alta to be perilous. When we are asks tee Glasgow Herald. "The in- talking business, let us talk business. asksterpreta .ion he pots on this phrase When we are talking diplomacy, let will be a sonnet test . of the 1ira5e Chan - Us talk diplomacy. Is such and such ,colter of the Exch er'e political. a state of affairs justifiable? It this and tlip'ontatic gna]itles. or that. unjust position to be aban- "What will be Mr. Suoivderr's at �doned? Are Certain anomalies to her titWill he krto7v just how 'e to rectified? Is :it to be peace—that is to say, justice—or not? des or, Push his policy of 'no compromise'? no—but not yes and no in the samel As he has observed, the sums of breath, and not yes ebvering no and money under dispute are a secondary no ccveriug yes. Mr. Philip Snow..natter to the principle at stake. den; who has been called for his Other European Powers have to he pains a sick ratan with unstrung ner-1 taught that we have econatnla and ves, and who has. provoked the typical financial rights as sacra? ae tltiire, Itinit or threat of aBranco-German tett- I and ;itt we cannot be relied epou in_ derstanding to the exclusion or Eng- tle;lnfte'y to make sacrifices ^u the land, is simply the honest man among altar of European peace. the 't Id diplomatists: " "'Po drive home this lesson it is "We are, by the sheer ineptitude of 1 probably unnecessary for us to secure the powers -that -be, the most taxed and ° the final penny of the demands fram- the most debt -ridden nation on the ed by Mr, Snowden, His estimate face of the planet," writes Mr, Leo' of what is a reasonable and the best Manse, editor of the National Re_! attainable t ffer will be an exacting' view, in the Sunday Dispatch, test of his statesmanship,' "We have little enough to show ftr� "Britain's' claims," slates the Scots - the extortion to which we submit ex., than, "involve no departure from the sept a --loss of 'face' frons China to essential structure of the Yung Plan, Peru, 1 the main purpose of which is, after "If l (r. Snowden is as sick of this all, to regulate the amount and man - sickening regime as the vast mass of net• of Germany's payments, and not the electorate he will matinue they to upset the hitherto accepted basis good work he has begun at The or distribution. In doinge so the ex- perts exceeded their authority." The Man "Early in the Chancellor's life, his accident with a bicycle helped, I think, to make hint more of a. student ber, who came jiugiing his sovereigns, is square 1121 a y, bribing when he dared, and when he colored oak, fitted with book -shelves, dared not developing au extraordinary ceilarette, stove, cupboards, writing bump of charity.: And £.ipn is. slick,, ;+•,deals wuei moans- ex sex. • die• aged clerk or municipal scavenger i a'itcl six- ztr rirliculotis sum, the tt ap,fir es of. �, utid T The yacht sleeps nine at a piach ---- ----. -• When I look at the members of the The baths oom is immaculate, but London County Council and see how the bath. is only 3 feet, 0 inches long hard they work for nothing, I ane notl—ant. Major Beaumont -Thomas is sure that the average Briton's con- more than six feet tall. portion. Even if our financial case tempt for the average M.P., deplorable, is tv]io11y sound we are not se poor as such a fact may be, is not as juste Ireland and the Air -Mail teat we must wreck Europe to gain fled as it is certainly inl:etligilile. £2,000,000 per anunut The Labor _ Dublin Weekly Times: Next week Government it it takes this risk will, will see an experiment of first-rate im- with its own hands, end its awn earecr c f international service." ""%''uclt la mernt by 'giving lit'?" Hague, extending his activity in other clirectipns and other departments, nad will command an amount cf sem Dort that will astonish the civilized world. ,`:Pao restoration or British pies- than any one else of the new genera- tige, the recovery of British self- tion ,then pushing out into the world," respect, aro conditions irecedent of writes Mr. Iteighley Snowden in the Star, in a character sketch of his re-. lative,' Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancel– lor of the Exchequer. "It was another dose or realism for ilial, to bo faced while others curly knew the thing at second-hand, as a traditiolt. It did not change frim, 'did not at all, as I have heard pet- pie surmise, snake ]tint bitter; but he lay and concetitrated.. "A good deal or his reading chanc- ed to be political, as was statural With a: civil servant Ole village school had put him in the wiry to pass examinations and begirt to serve In Scotland) ; and so this concentration Graham ,ltpcl only to make rue or male frim an intense politician. But ills pe•,rsuesive speeches on this mat- the intenseness, t10w an easy habit, stable and enduring peace, which is tnlderstoctrt to ine the object that is nearest and dearest to the Socialist Party," An 'O`t:tapoken. Critic The only note of free criticism comes from Mr, II. N, Brailsford, in the New Leader, who writes:— "Mr. 'Snowden has trade three main demands: the restoration cf the Spa percentages, a greater share of the 'unconditional' payments, and some changes in the system of deliveries in kind. The last is, surely, the most important of these clonus, for it dir- ectly affects employment. But idr, Still Three Million Slaves in World League of Nations Council is Requested to Appoint a Commission for the Pur- pose of Studying the Question in All. Its Aspects Geneva: A decision of great inter- est and importance from the viewpoint of the anti -slavery campaign was ized, western Ireland will become in the near future a vital link in interne, tional communications. Trens•Atlan- tic ships entering Galway Bay will dis- charge mail -carrying airraft from their decks, or mails will bo taken ashore tri be loaded into aircraft at should be invited to appoint a member Oranmore aerodrome, and then the on the slavery commission inquiry. flying craft will hurry over Ireland to destinations that could not be reached for at least another day, if tate usual Foreign Trade and Empire sea -route to )dnglieh ports were coni- Trade of the immmediate experiment, ft is ccr- plated. ediaver may be tate fortunes Bombay Times of India: The colon- tain thct sooner or later the thing lel. Conference which was held at Ot now attempted wit come to pass. 'tawa in 1594 made it clear that no "I hear your boy friend. has a Neuse policy of Colonial Preference should of his own and wants you to sharebe allowed to impair Britain's foreign it." "What is a statistician, dad?" "A trade; otherwise Britain's loss would "Maybe he has --I know be has. part statistician, my son, is a man who the reflected is the en's los them- cE one ,anyway, for I gave him the comes to the aid of figures which can- selves. But succeeding Governments, despite many serious failures, have done their best to promote both trade within the Empire and trade in Eur- ope. ope, The present Government should Reel) both goals iu view. Fundamen- tally, there is no contradiction; im- poverishment of the one leads to the impoverishment of the other. gate yesterday." not lie for themselves'. A Family to he Proud of THE NO -HAULS ARE ALL t EV'OTEES OF TENNIS Pay, Jiinmle; MellY, John and Thelma Nuthall, brothers and sister's or 1306, Nutitali, Bnglish tennis 'champion, who is now competing in America, Arab and Jew New Yorlt Journal of Commerce: Local critics of the British mandatory policy have referred to the vast amounts, of capital that the Jews of America have poured into Palestine for the colonization and development of that country. Helpful as this as- sistance has been in raising the level or well-being of the Jewish elements which benefit directly, it is quite liltely that it adds fuel to the flame of the age -long hatred that exists between Arab and JeW, An economic renais- sance directed from without for the benefit of a chosen few of the people or any cottntt'Y offers little appeal to those who remain outside the oircle of benefits. VISION Men succeed in proportion to the fixity of their vision and the invinci- bility of their purpose, If you can And out a Mali's quitting point, the place 'viler() he gives ftp, you can measure hint pretty easily. The Manitoba Government wiII have the job of supervising the building of the town. The Federal Department is only concerned with the railway and the port improvements. It looks as if Churchill would be a mecca for tourists from the start, and the first call will be for a hotel. r "No, daughter, I don't want you to go to a co-ed school All the boys there think of nothing but flirting" "Why, mother, hey can you say that They do plenty of necking too." SUCCESS Success based on virtue is like a .flower growing in the forest; success due to ability is like a Sower planted In a pot; success gained by trickery and force is like a rootless flower in a vase; it can be seen to wither even as it is watched, Voice (on 'phone): Hello! Is this the fire department? ifiretnen Yes, What is it? Voice: How fax is It to the nearest ahem box? My house is on fire and I watt to turn in Ian alarm,