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Vancouver, B.C., February 28, 1936

A BARREN SPE
TE Pattullo Government in

the Throne” once again shows its subservi-
eney to the big interests and its intention to
place even more grievous burdens upon the poor.

In “forecast of Jeg

its

speeches of the mover and seconder to the speech
from the throne there is not the slightest men-
tion made of real work and wages, but there is
an evident intention to use taxpayers’ money to

develop mining properties for

There is no mention of constructive, concrete

legislation that will assist the
and it is clear
in the house that the Pattullo

every intention of further impoyerishing the

masses and helping the rich.
It appears that the Health In
go through, after it is

mately 50 per cent, and there
about restoring it.

In fighting the proposed measures of the gov-
the C.C.F. mem-
bers of the opposition will have the support of

ernment against the people,

the organized labor movement

A CONTRAST

AGHOOL Trustee George Cunningham has
: given a statement to the press dealing
the disgraceful conditions of overerowding iD
Vancouver schools which he says are exceedingly

detrimental both to the health
40,000 school children.
‘A few examples will suffice

High School, built to accommodate 1200 pupils
has at present 1500; Magee High School, built

for GOO pupils is housing 1000
being held in the basement;

rants, while Kitsilano has 2400

into a building with accommodation for 1800.

Many secondary schools are
gymnasium facilities.
Im Vancouver less money

asked the City Council for
to improve those conditions an
congestion. The Couneil bas
fused.

And yet this same City
could find and squander
police to act as strikebreakers f

Federation to smash fhe unions on the water-

‘front and to assist Bennett in d

Commission Hears C. P. Position

On Friday, February 21st, Mal-
ecolm Bruce appeared before
Judge Doak, of the Commission
of Inquiry into the Dominion Day
riots at Regina to state the Com-
munist Party’s position in con-
nection with the strike and trek
to Ottawa of the Relief Camp
workers.

Bruce was not permitted to
read a statement he had pre-
pared, but was permitted to speak
for 25 minutes.

Below we print the statement.
Wis speech was along the same
lines EDITOR.

The bringing in of Communists
and the Gommenist Party of Can-
ada into the enquiry into the riots
at Regina last Dominion Day, the
misrepresentation and distortion of
what communists stood for and did
in connection with the Relief Camp
Strike of last year, and particular-
ly the statements made, according
to press reports, by Chief Constable
Foster, make it necessary to state
for the benefit of the Commission
and the public just what the Com-
munists stand for, what they advo-
eated in connection with the said
strike and trek and what objective
they had in view.

First of all, I state most em-
phatically that Chief Foster was in-
correct when, according to press Tre-
ports, he stated or inferred that
“eommunistic organizations” had
brought the strike about and had
prought the camp boys into Van-
couver as a part of a plan for
bringing about a general strike.

Gommunists have no interests
apart from the interests of the
wokring class and the common peo-
ple in general. The communists do
not believe in or advocate strike
action just for the sake of striking
or for trouble-making- But where-
ever and whenever the lot of the
workers calls for organization, and
strike if necessary, to remedy evil
conditions, the Gommunists are in
favor of such strike action, for all
the history of the struggles of an
exploited class attests that in the
Jast analysis the strike is labor's
most effective instrument, that the
right to strike is a democratic right
that was fought for and won by. the
workers, and a right they will not
readily relinquish.

Knowing that the Camp Boys

from what has been already said

fixed up to suit the em-
ployers, and providing for severe taxation of the
employed workers who will not even have the
privilege of choosing theiz own doctors.

The government has reduced the provincial
grant to the schools of Vancouver by approxi-

Lord Byng High
School has 200 more pupils than the plan war-

is spent on on edu-
eation of children than in any important city
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The School Board has for a number of
financial assistance

Council and Mayor
$103.036 for extra

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its “Speech from

people ot all
lengths

slation and the @—
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the rich. : Chi
the rich rape of China.

people of B.C.,

sovernment has

Fascism.
surance Bill wall

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will be able to

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ple in France,
all its horrors

of B.C.

those countries.

In Canada,
with

and studies of

: John Oliver
and classes are

pupils jammed

without proper

of years

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consistently re- dermen were

Reeve Arthur
tario, was unseated under an amendment passed
by the Hepburn government only to be re-elected
by acclamation in 2 macniticent demonstration
of what can be accomplished when progressive

or the Shipping

riving the Slave people unite.

children

REACTION IN JAPAN
HE attempt of the militarist jingoes
fascists of Japan to overthrow the newly=
elected parliament is yet another warning to the

of assassination, terror and crime the
capitalists will go to Inaintain power.
The recent elections resulted in a victory for the
progressive forces and was a telling blow against
fascism and the war plans of the miulitarist
clique against the Soyiet Union and the further

The Communist Party of Japan advised the
electors to vote for candidates of the Takai
Taishuto, the social-democratie party, under the
slogan of a People’s Front Against War and

But the forces of reaction are never willing
to accept the decision of the electors if it is
against them, and staged their murderous coup.

to set up a fascist :
Should the reaction succeed, the danger ot
war against the Soviet Union will be increased,

‘nroads on the mainland and attack against the
land of socialism. .
Were it not for the united front of the peo-

quietly working towards fascism. L
of Tom McInnes is a part of this campaign.
The workers, farmers
must be vigilant against this menace, and build
the People’s Front to safeouard what is left of
democracy in Canada.

PENALIZING POVERTY

ELE efforts throughout Canada to unseat labor:

representatives on municipal bodies because
of their being on relief and unable to pay up
their taxes has aroused a storm of protest 1
which people of all political parties are jomune.

That the reaction is getting :
by the attempt to force MacManus, Communist
alderman of Regina, and Mikkelson, C©-C.F.
alderman, to give evidence
and to even force their wives
state against their husbands, all for the purpose
of furnishing a basis for unseating them. Their
refusal to take the stand against themselves was
called contempt of court and the two labor
imprisoned.

Camp strikers back to forced labor at 20 cents

are herded into crowded
ereat danger to their health the

City Hall gang dips its prehensile hooks into
the treasury to supply finks and stoolpigeons
for the predatory boss
workers who were struggling
and the right to organize.
There is only one way in which such an ad-
ministration can be kicked out of otice, and
that is by a united citizens’ front pledged to

elass and to slander the
for a decent lite

decently and to protect workers

and.

capitalist countries as to what

however, that the People’s Front
defeat the efforts of the reaction
dictatorship.

further

the fascist militarists is

Spain and Japan, fascism with
would have been triumphant 10

the forees of reaction are

too,
The rayimes

and progressive people

bolder is shown

against themselves
to testify for the

al-

Williams of East York, On-

4Gommission and with promises of
redress of their grievances, or of
some of them, the Communists
supported the organization of the
inmates of the Relief Camp into a
union, to wit: The Relief Camp
Workers’ Union. When the camp
inmates, seeing no recourse for a
redress of their grievances except
to strike, and did strike, the Com-
munists supported that strike
wholeheartedly, as did many other
organizations and individuals not
associated with the Communist
Party, and in some cases even an-
tagonistic to it And when the Com-
munists saw the forces of reaction
arrayed against the camp strikers
and the police provocation and the
efforts to persuade them to again
return to the camps by another set
of promises which they knew would
be broken, the CGommunists sup-
ported the proposal of more work-
ers being drawn into the struggle
on behalf of Canada’s youth, that
is, into a general strike.

The Communists, seeing that de-
spite the tremendous support be-
ing received by the Camp strikers
from labor and progressive organi-
zations, both morally and financi-
ally, and that the authorities were
determined to force the men back
to the camps, the Communists sup-
ported the proposal. for 2 general
strike in order to exert more PIess-
ure on those who are adamant in
retaining the relief camps and driv-
ing the men back to them without
bringing about any improvement in
them. When it was clear that there
was as yet jnsufficient unity of the
trade union movement and a Jack
of realization of what 2 menace
forced labor is to the wages and
conditions of organized Jabor, the
Gommunists no longer supported a
general strike.

The statements to the effect that

a general strike was the objective

of either the camp boys or the com-
munists and that the camp boys’
strike was a prelude, or lead-up, to
it is wholly false, and obviously
were made and are being made for
the purpose of diverting attention
from the real issues, the forced
Jabor in the camps with their mili-
tary regulations and regimentation
and the shameful coolie wage of
20 cents a day-

The evidence of Chief Foster, ac-
cording to press reports, was also
to the effect that Gommunists had
in prospect a strike on the water-
front and desired the camp boys in
the city to further such a strike.
There is not a! shred of truth in
such a charge. As a matter of fact,
the Communists had information
that the Shipping Federation was
preparing to smash genuine trade
union organization on the water-
front, and were opposed to a strike
on the waterfront as being at that
time not in the best interests of the
longshoremen. The ecrrectness of
such an estimate was seen when
the Shipping Federation locked out
the longshoremen early in June.
Moreover, the presence of hundreas
of camp boys in the city during 2
longshore strike woudl be a detri-
ment and not a help to such a
strike.

Charges have been made and, we
believe, read into the record of this
enquiry that the Communists
planned tumult and disorder, to end
in a revolution for the ignition of
which the camp boys’ strike was
to have been the spark. I emphatic-
ally and eatagorically deny these
charges. The Communists had no
thought of tumult, disorder or reyvo-
lution in connection with the strug-
gle of the camp boys, whether in
fhe strike or in their trek to Otta-
wa which was for the purpose of
bringing a knowledge of their plight
before an even greater number of

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535 Homer St.

“WHAT ABOUT

had been fooled by means of an
investigation by the MacDonald

TONIGHT
Public Meeting

“WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SPAIN”
‘WORK AND WAGES?”

Auspices Communist Party of Canada

8 p.m. sharp

—_—_W.. Bennett.

Jack Taylor.

Yes! Help Wanted Signs!

fill the demand.

Help wanted signs have largely disappeared from the Canadian
scene since prosperity ducked around the corner in 1929. But in Mos-
cow, workers arriving from Soviet farmlands dash to the Komso-
molskay to look over the ads—for there aren’t enough workers to

CHICAGO DOCTOR
PRAISES SOVIET
MEDICOS, SYSTEM

VANCOUVER, Feb. 20—Dr. Wm.
H. Walsh, eminent Chicago consult—
ant in a luncheon address to the
health bureau of the Board of
Trade in the Hotel Vancouver to-
nizht, was not amiss in his praise of
the Soviet physicians.

Diasmostic centres, night sani-
tariums, research in medicine, were
the main topie of his address, the
first two of these mentioned were
far in advance of any in the western
world.

The diagnostic centres are open
to the Soviet worker at all times
and workers who have been on the
sick list may visit these centres and
obtain a clean bill of health, before
they return to their employment.

Wight sanitariums are open to
workers who are found with any
symptoms of disease are ordered to
report nightly, after he has finish—
ed his work. There he is treated and
kept overnight and allowed to con-
tinue his work in the daytime. This
method of treament is continued
until the doctors are confident that
the patient has been restored to per-
fect health.

WwW.

“SOVIET RUSSIA is for peace
and has demonstrated that tv
all the world. Russia could have

the willing consent of Quter Mon-
golia if she had desired it. Never
by word or deed has Russia siven
the slighest indication that it
wants territory. Why? Because in
Russia you have common property
in the means of life.”

This was a most striking passage
in a speech by W. Gallacher, Com-
munist M.P., delivered in the Bri-
tish House of Commonson Febru-
ary 5, on a motion by George Lans-
bury for “a new international con-
ference to deal with the economic
factors responsible’ for war and to
arrive at “international agreements
which will remove all nations
the incentive to pile up armaments
and to establish the peace of the
world on a sure foundation.”

Mr. Lansbury made a purely pa-
cifist appeal, and was taunted by
Mr. Bernays (Liberal)) that he had
voted for armaments for other peo-
ple to Kill. Lansbury agreed that,
as a member of the Labor govern-
ment, he had done so and had be-
trayed his. principles.

The danger of war was nearer to-
day than at any time in his own
lifetime, he said, opening the de-
bate on the motion,

Me declared he had never known
a period when armaments were of
such a devilish description as now.

In all the speeches which follow-
ed, however, the real causese of war
and the way to fight for peace,
were not made clear until Galla-
cher intervened in the debate. His
opportunity came towards the end
of the debate, and he declared:

“T want to approach this question

ef war from an entirely different
point of view from any that has
been put forward. I am one of
those who fought against the last

war from its first day to its last. I
will fisht again against any at-
tempt to use the youth of this coun-
try in a predatory war.
' British Commonwealth of Nations
“There has been much talk of
the British Commonwealth of
Nations. I have even heard my Rt.
Hon. friend below the Gangway
(Mr. Lansbury) talk of it as a bul-
wark of civilization. But the British

Commonwealth of Nations is the
product of continual wars, and
there is nothing so futile as the

futility of those who talk about the
futility of war while they hold ten-
aciously to the gains of war.

“The right hon. Member for Car-
narvon Borough (Mr. Lloyd
George) told us with a throb in his
yoice that Belgium, with a popula-
tion of 8,000,000, had a Slice of Afri-
ca and that Germany had none. Is
it to be wondered at that wherever
you go you hear of perfidious Al-
bion, and continual talk about the
hypocrisy of the political leaders of
this country? Belgium, with a pow-
ulation of 8,000,000, has a slice of
territory in Africa!

“The Right Hon. Gentleman did
not think it worth while to tell us
that Britain, with a population of

the citizens of Canada in order to
gain an eyen greater public support
than that which they had previous-
ly been accorded.

The Communists have nothing to
hide or apologize for in their sup-
port of the struggles of the work-
ing class, including the relief camp
workers, for better conditions and
for 2 decent living wage. The

Communists strove to assist the
camp strikers in every possible
legitimate way — by drawing as

many labor and progressive or-
ganizations and individuals into a
united front in support of them,
and will continue to do so.

The Communists hold that such
camps have no necessary place in
Canadian economy and should be
abolished, and that work and wages
be provided in order that the youth
of Canada be given an opportunity
to live normal lives, to earn a de-
cent living, to enjoy social contacts
and social living and have a future,
instead of being condemned to the
hopelessness of life in these camps.
Tt was to assist in bringing about
this improvement in the lives of the
youth that the Communists sup-
ported and still support the strug-
gles of the inmates of the Relief

Camps.

allacher on the
Fight for Peace

had Quter Mongolia freely and with |

45,000,000, has nearly the whole of
the world.
Profits and War

“Where do wars come from?
We used to hear a lot about

the Kaiser and his evil deeds, but
everybody knows that the War of
1914 was prepared for by every one
of the countries for years before in
the fight for territory, markets and
profits, and the greatest of these is
profits—not prophets from the sun-
ny hills of Wales, but profits in
hard cash. While there is the fight
for profits there will be war. Speak-
ing at a meeting in Warwick, the
Foreign Secretary said, according
to “The Times” :—

“Weare for peace. We are for
the League of Nations. We are

against aggression.’

“That is clear and plain, but it
is followed a little later in the same
speech by this—‘We are not anti
any country. We are not pro any
country.’ How can we be for peace
if we are not for the countries
which are for peace? How can we
be against aggression if we are not
against the countries who are mak-
ing or preparing for aggression?
The Right Hon. Member for Car-
narvon was not ready for war, anid
that Russia was not ready for war.

Russia Fishts for Peace

“What he should have said is
that Germany is preparing for war,
and he should have followed that
by saying that Russia is ready
for and continually fighting for
peace (uaughter.) Hon. Members
Jjaugh. The Right Hon. Member
for Carnarvon Boroughs said, and
others have said it also, that Italy
wants territory, Germany wants
territory, Japan wants territory. Is
there any Hon. Member or Right
Hon. Member who would have the
audacity to say that Russia by
word or deed has indicated any de-
Sire for territory?”

A Member: “What about Outer
Mongolia?”
Gallacher: “Russia could have

had Outer Mongolia freely and with
the willing consent of Outer Mon-
golia if she had desired it. Never
by word or deed has Russia Siven
the slightest indication that it wants
territory. Why? Because in Russia
you have common property in the
means of life. Where you have
private property in the means of life
you must .sell your goods outside
the country to get your profits.
Therefore, always looking outside
the country for profits brings about
the diplomatic trouble that leads
ultimately to the military struggle
for markets.
Anglo-Soviet Pact

“Soviet Russia is for peace and
has demonstrated that to all the
world. Will we make a pact with
Soviet Russia? Will we make a pact
with those in France who are also
concerned in making peace? This
would mean an advance to a big
stage in the concentration of forces
makine for peace.

“The Rt. Lion. member for Keigh-
ley (Mr. Lees-Smith) has correctly
said ‘the world is going through a
process of change” As that process
foes on it would be folly to think
that the Britsh Empire could con-
tinue to exist indefinitely.

“mMhis side of the House stands
for sanctions because sanctions rep-
resent peace, not war. This side of
the House is absolutely opposed to
war by every means. It has been
suggested that if oil sanctions are
imposed, it will be impossible for
Italy to conduct the war in BHthio-
pia and Mussolini will become so
desperate that he will start another
war in Europe. This is the kind of
argument we get but the fear which

Defend Youth

Twenty-six Trekkers come up for trial
They must not be sacrificed to prove that the police and gov-
Funds are urgently needed to

ernment can do no wrong.

provide adequate defence for these youths!
support by a liberal donation on our

TAG DAY—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29

needed.
Victory Hall, 531 Homer Street.

Sympathetic car owners who will donate use of cars on Sat-
urday, February 29th, please

Taggers are urgently
quarters, Ground Floor,

WOMEN’S DAY
MARCH EIGHTH

The Colonial Theatre on Granville
Street will be the meeting place of
women desirous of upholding the
status of freedom already achieved
and also to discuss the economic
problems which the decline of the
present system has forced upon
women. It is true women have the
vote, a struggle which brought In-
ternational Women’s Day into exist-
ence, but the conditions facing us
today, especially women in indus-
try, offer us a picture with much to
be desired. The women in the tex-
tile trades, of which the Stevens’
Price Probe revealed horrible ex-
amples of sweat-shop labor; women
engaged in personal service as in
beauty parlors, waitresses in var-
ious establishments, and the worst
exploited class ef all, domestic ser-
vants, Show a pressing need for
social legislation to better their Jot.

Then we come to that vast major—
ity whose work is unpaid and un-
sung, the housewives, a large pro-
portion who wear themselves out
in an effort to “make ends meet,”
who are at the mercy of commer-
cial interests, having no say what-
ever in the prices of the commo-
dities purchased for their families,
and no say in the amount of wages
received to purchase them.

The greatest evil facing us, espe-
cially at the present time, is the
dread shadow of war, the effects of
which fall most heavily on the
women and children, not only im-
mediately but in the years to come,
the effects of food shortage and use
of substitutes causes a Sharp rise
in the mortality rate, in the health
of the people, in an acute housing
shortage, thus accelerating slum
conditions and in the spread of dis-
ease. With every woman standing
firm, refusing to send her manfolk
away as in the last slaughter, would

force governments ‘to settle their
problems some other way.
At the celebration on Sunday,

Mrs. D. Steeves, M.L.A., who is be-
coming the spokesman for women in
B.C., will speak on social legislation
of vital] importanceto women; Mrs.
W. Wilson brings the views of the
Ganadian League Against War and
Fascism, and Mrs. C. Stewart will
speak on the work and policies of
the Women’s Labor League.

they have is not the fear of war in
Europe; it is the fear of a collapse
of Fascism in Italy or in Germany.
German Fascism would never exist

today if it had mot been for the
financia 1 and political support
given from this country.
Unity for Peace
‘“J¢ the Under-Secretary of State
says we are for peace, then tet

him declare that the Government
are solidly with and for those na-
tions which are for peace. Tf it 1s
true, as he Says, that we are against
aggression, let ihe Government
openly and frankly say they are
against Japan, against Italy,
against Germany, and against the
preparations for aggression that
are being made.

“yet them take this stand, and on
this basis, in unity with the other
peace nations, go forward to such
4 conference as has been proposed
by the Right Hon. Gentleman; and
the British Empire, even while it is
going out of existence, will be ren-
dering a measure of seryice to the

future of humanity.”

& Democracy!

at Regina March 11th.

Express your

Register at Tag Day Head-

telephone TRINITY 1807.

OL’ BILL

He
“Methinks the lady doth protest |
too much,” says the Queen-moth
in Hamlet, the inference being 9
course that the lady was trying to”
cover-up. 4

When we read the vociferous Pro-
testations of Gen. MacBrien, heag
of the R.C.M.P., the other day in|
connection with $1000 bribe charge, |
evem ‘before anyone had accus :

him, it smelled like the lady's 2
tempts to cover-up referred
above.

The malodorous reputation of the!
RCMP. at the bottom and in the
middle is not liable to be much less 54
stinking at the top. The Tong |
record of corruption and bribery);
lying, prejury and blackmail; dope: |
peddline and smuggling; embezzle —
ment and even murder charged i
against lesser members of the force 4
may just as likely apply to the,
higher ranks. In fact, if the Com-
missioner in Regina, Woods, who
organized the attack on the citizens,
of Regina and the Camp-strikers jj
did not lie in giving evidence be)
fore the investigating commission, |
then I do not know what lying is; |
As between the sworn statement |
of an American racketeer who has
nothing to gain by saying he gave)
a $1,000 bribe to a high Canadian)
official and the word of honor of a |

high Canadian Mounted cop, wh
has everything to lose. I would
rather take the word of ths
racketeer. :

Graft is just as common in Cant)
ada as in the States. ‘The same
type of predatory buzzards are al-
ways on the watch to get a hold
on the public teat. Canadian his-
tory proves it. How long sincs
Beauharnois? Only the Canadians
cover-up better, Ganadian politit
being similar to American modifi
by Emglish political usages. Woahilk
the American grafter walks right)
up to the front door to collect, sing=
ing “The Boodle, the Boodle For
Me,” his Canadian prototype sneaks!
up the alley to the back door after
the accepted manner of the Hneglish™
grafters. {

® * # * ey

The announcement in the press
Jast week that Sears-Roebuck hay
set aside 91% million dollars fot
newspaper advertising during 193é
should open the eyes of people wha
still talk of a free press. None of
that 916 millions will find its way
into the treasuries of the laboz
papers that make it their business
to organize the workers to strugslé
for better conditions of life, includ:
ing workers in department storet
and warehouses.
And just as the press is con
trolled by the owners of the mii
lions so is this the cause with thi
radio. They own the air as well al’
the printing-plants. This makes 1
doubly necessary that the worker
should support every paper ant
every broadcast that furthers thei
interests. Of the papers we have
said plenty in the past couple @
months, but the necessity for hang
ing on to and extending the ust
of the radio is not yet sufficientl}
understood. E
Tim Buck is speaking over the au
in Toronto; it’s a beginning! ai
“B.C. Workers’ News’? has a 10
minute period on Friday nights. E
is not much and the cireumseribe
limits laid down by the law pre
vents us from saying aS much a
we can in our press, but it also i
a beginning. Everyone of us shoul
support this broadeast, by listening
in, by advertising it and by financia
contributions.

* = *& %

Chapayevy has come and gone. 1
is a pity it could not have been cir
culated throughout the Proyince
As propaganda it was more thar

subtle. It showed unmistakably thi
part in the revolutionary strugeli
played by the Communist party

When Chapayev accepted the lead
ership of the party he won over al
obstacles; when he depended ol
Chapayeyv he suffered defeat. :

It is unfortunate that we couli
not all speak Russian or we woul
have enjoyed it even more than Ww
did. Mr. Superintendent Darling o
the R.C.M.P. (oaned to the cit
police) apparently does not sped
Russian either or he might hay
brought his heavy hand down, 4
he did in ‘Waiting For Lefty,” a
Chapayey on at least two occasion
used the same stinging invectiv
moniker as the taxi-driver Clane
in the play used on his lous;
strike-breaking brother—*“male of
spring of a female mutt’’—to put
in language that will not shock ti
delicate susceptibilities of a Moun
ed mancatcher. Of course Chapaye
did not have the perverted mind .
a cop, but the natural, healthy ou
look of a peasant-carpenter.

* = * *

In a copy of a Shanghai pap
that has just come into my han
is an article on the report of #
Pinance Minister to the Chiang-kz
shek government, Dr. Kung. TE
was during last summer. The Tr
port shows that the expenses f
military purposes this year amou
to $332,990,000; for loans and i
demnities, $299,000,000 (all to Impe
jalist sharks); making 80 per cent
the total expenditures.

In another part of this paper
news-letier contains the followi
item: ‘Peasants in a number
districts in Shansi, Shensi, Huns
Szechwan and Kwantung provin«
are living on grass, weeds and bai
Many of them are eating 2 kind
‘Kwongyintu’ (soil) for subsistenc
This is the Civilization Mussolir

fascists would bring to Abyssin