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Hokitika Guardian, 4 April 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIII.K ASSOCIATION. GERMANS SCF’FER. LONDON, April 3. The “Daily Express’s” Berlin correspondent states there have been 13 suicides in Berlin in a single day. These are an index if the price which Germany D paying for her policy of passive resistance. The lower, middle and working classes are suffering badly. The medical statistics show that AO per cent of tic children in the Prussian schools are now underfed, and a large number are suffering from scrofula. and allied diseases, owing to the liigh price of milk and soap. ZAGIJ LOLL TO BE FREED. ON DON, April 2. Tile UHli-li Foreign i Mice aiimmnres that it has new ordered the release o: Engl.lo'il pasha, the leader of the Egyptian Nationalists, owing to Ins doctor's report that he needs a complete change, and a course cl waters ill Europe. It is understood that this decision means the release of Zughlou! from British jurisdiction, and that he will eventually return to Egypt. MUSSOLINI'S VIEWS i Received this dav at ft. lo a.tii.) ROME. April 3. Mussolini in a remarkahle aitiele in the new paper “Ci'inehin -ays he llano use for Liherali-m. Russia and Italy have shown one can govern without. it. Liberalism means that n few men over-rule all others, allow ing freedom of 10-tion to those avowedly In s- J tile to the State. History has no ex- J ample of a Government exclusively ■ based on the will of tie people and re- ] pumicing the use of i’t rce. The will! of the people is as shifty ns the sands of the sea shore. The truth is m"!i are tired of liberty. Liberty is no longer a chaste, severe virgin, for whom the first half of tlie nineteenth ccntuiy fought. Faci-ni lias no tpialius in declaring itsell .inti-I.iL.'i-al. It "ill trample under foot the decomposed corpse of liberty.